Cara...

It is over the top intentionally!

Way too much smoothing! Pull it back all around and make sure to get rid of it on her clothing, hat, hair, jewelry, eyes, and lips. The black and white haloing around her doesn't look all that pleasing either.

The shot has a lot of potential, it's a good shot and a lovely model, you just need to pull way back on the post.

What TheAnt said =)

Thanx Ant!!! It was intentionally over the top...was going for a fake-ish surreal sort of look. The halo around her was incidental, but I liked it along with the effect I was going for, so I left it in. Gave added separation from the BG I thought.

The SOOC is gorgeous, but her mom wanted to do post on them (she is a fabulous PS editor with a great eye). So I thought I would play around and go extreme with a few of them. Maybe I went too extreme

Kechar wrote in post #12356177
It is over the top intentionally!

Given this statement, I like it.

Without the statement, I agree with the others...

A muse in the making. Fantastic shot and neat pp. I would prefer more realistic, but I like what you did!

too smooth, too "perfect". :/

It would work if the edges were sharp and didn't have a drop shadow or halo. As it sits now, it hurts my eyes!