Fixing blotchy skin??

My daughter gets me to take 'glamor' shots of her every once in a while that she can post on facebook etc. The last time she over-did the makeup and one area of her face looks light in the photos and another area looks dark. Is there a better way to fix this than dodge/burn?

Need example, if possible. I can tell you exactly what to use

Here's one that I haven't done anything to yet.

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Are you talking about how the bottom half of the cheek is more orange and a tad darker than the rest? I literally just took the dodge tool at 10% affecting only midtones, picked a large soft brush and clicked in a few times and it fixed the color/value right up. You can also probably use a bunch of tools like the patch tool to clean up any other blemishes or soften "issues"

My method, because I like to keep everything in Lightroom if I can help it.

In Lightroom, set an adjustment brush to have a little bit of dodge (+exposure or +highlights or +shadows, depending on the need), some desaturation, and maybe even a little bit of color adjustment using the little box in the bottom right of the brush pane. Apply directly to the forehead .. er, brush on to the problem/orange areas.

The problem with this specific image is that it appears to be shot in rather harsh ambient lighting as evidenced by the subject's squinting, the hard shadows on her face, and the specularity of her skin. The lighting is also making the imperfections in her skin more obvious that otherwise.

I used Frequency Separation to address some of the skin issues; the next step would be to use some dodging and burning to smooth out the skin tones.

groundloop wrote in post #16715066
Here's one that I haven't done anything to yet.

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PixelMagic wrote in post #16717336
The problem with this specific image is that it appears to be shot in rather harsh ambient lighting as evidenced by the subject's squinting, the hard shadows on her face, and the specularity of her skin. The lighting is also making the imperfections in her skin more obvious that otherwise.

You're very much correct about harsh lighting, that was taken around 3 in the afternoon in direct sunlight. I didn't have a choice in the matter.

I'll have to look up frequency separation. I have a hunch it's about like wavelet decompose in Gimp.