Hi Jack, thank goodness you're not a airplane. LOL.
If you were trying to get a more realistic look might I suggest that you do something that a friend of mine used to do called masking.
He would take the face of one person and make a mask out of it and put it on a another person, basically cut-and-paste.
This would give you a more realistic look, then you would not have to worry about removing things like earrings and stuff like that.
Just take a common face scheme from people putty and paste the mask of the person that you would like the head to look like.
I spent only about 3 min. or so on this so it doesn't look very good. But if you were to spend some quality time doing the mask you could get much better results.
Sincerely, below is a picture of what I am talking about. I hope this has helped you in your endeavor, have fun, and I cannot wait to see your results.
C load.