Only time I ever did was at Disneyland with Mickey Mouse. They led my hand obviously without saying anything - I was with a group and they explained before I pulled away. Was really cool as the nose was smooth while the face was fuzzy. For the record I've got 5%, varies with light conditions.

In summary:
6' mouse who wears pants and walks around greeting people? Yes.
Person? No.

It is weird. Don't do it! I have never touched someone's face, and I wouldn't if I was asked. Touching a face tells me nothing about what a person looks like.

It's very cringy, NGL, and wreaks of stereotypical blindy.

I've done it only once and I felt awqward during the entire ordeal, mainly because the person just grabbed my hand and was like, here is my forehead, here are my cheeks. Feel them good. Pure cringe.

It doesn't really help me formulate an image of someone, since I have no idea what constitutes a beautiful face or the like, so I'm just left with a random face shape. It's like touching a statue of someone.

I guess I could accept it if it's a SO, but feeling the face of anyone else is just, ugh

I find the idea peculiar.
In the 30 years of being blind and knowing other blind individuals, I’ve never once come across anyone who touches faces. This is definitely something I’ve been asked about by sighted people, but it’s never come up amongst the blind people I’ve known.

It is not socialy acceptable to go around public places feeling people's faces. Like many others here, I cringe when I hear people who want to feel someone's face.

I find it cute in a certain way. I'd do it with a girl I like for example. I'm really not a touching person though.

For me it makes no sense to do it. I don't really have any sort of sense of what faces are supposed to be like, so it's a fairly random shape that doesn't tell me anything. I simply don't imagine people's faces when I talk to them, it doesn't even arise. Other than if they have some very remarkable feature (beard, very big nose, or something) I don't really get any sense of them, and I certainly wouldn't be able to distinguish them from others.

I don't mind touching the face of someone I'm involved with, not to get information about them, but simply the same way one may stroke another part of the body, or the hair, or whatever.

Its entirely as you say it. Myth. Doesn't work, and is just weird to even consider.

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I lost my sight when I was 14 years old. I've always found this face touching idea strange. It's not something I would want to have done to me, or, do to somebody else. (Well okay, maybe if a cute sounding girl in high school or college had wanted me to do it, I could have made an exception. You know, for science...or something.)

My grandgather did this once of course asking first for my permission. We were very close as family and he touched my face and hair very gently and sensitive avoiding eyes. He was fully blind since he was 3 years old due to mysterious optical nerves illness in his days theres was no eye doctor nearby, he lost sight in matter of hours. He never saw us or his children even his wife, as we we're little he shown us way to kindergarden, played accordion, read for us Braille books (how awesome for us it was kids like superpower "our grandfather reads books without letters with his fingers! He does everything even he can't see we have grandfather with superpower"). even if in our small town we're other blind people our grandfather was "the best". That thread reminded me a lot of him.

I miss him.

But in general its weird thing. I would understand this between close family only when both sides fully agree on this and if its done in gentle way and if persons aren't transmitting this way diseases it could cost someones sight (herpes zoster, herpes simplex so many dangerous ones not only by touch) if both sides aren't alredy sick on those and I would still avoid it.
Someday I heard about a service where you send photo and they will send you back bigger one you could feel and touch with raised edges, lines, different textures for low vision and blind people it was long time ago, much safer.

I'm in the unique position that my face has changed substantially over the past year, as many sighted people have pointed it out to me. I've felt my face before and after and I can't feel any changes. It feels like my face. Maybe my cheeks are a bit less pudgy but that's about it. That's not enough info to identify someone with.

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Unless your getting intimate with someone in the wi hours of the morning.... Yeah don't.

So, so awkward. Just no. Hate it.

I wouldn’t do it I’m also autistic though so it’s a sensory thing it makes me cringe

Seems pretty strange to me. I wouldn't do it.
Once when I was a little kid a teacher asked if I wanted to feel her face. I didn't then and I definitely don't now.