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@sistabliss - There appears to be an orange cast over the entire image that you posted.  If I had to guess, this was probably due to some nearby tungsten lights that weren't fully color corrected.  In addition to the obvious shadow that English_Wolf minimized, the lighting is far from optimal for portraiture. There is also *way* too much camera noise / grain, and that affects the perception of your skin texture.

Having not met you, I don't know what your true skin / hair color and texture are, but I suspect that you probably look more like the image below than the original image you posted.  See what you think.  Feel free to use it if you like it.

Tom M

PS - If the effects that I used are too strong, it's easy to go, for example, half way between what English_Wolf posted and the version I posted.