the shoulders are too 'burnt'

There is lot of difference between a GIRL and an OLD WOMAN(read the contest description again).

Gopan.. my mother is 82 years old and has had 10 children.. and she is STILL a girl to me.. and she's just as beautiful as she was when she was 21 thank you very much.. even more so.. we can't all look like Britney or the Jonas Brothers.. thank you very much... sheesh.. Oh Author... I can see the love in your work..You may want to pull back on the saturation a bit to give her less TAN red and more FLESH tones.. It works for me when I do restorations on water damaged pics

GolemAura: Thank you!!

I am not a professional. I am doing this for fun. When it no longer becomes fun, it's time to step back. I removed my entries from that particular contest because it seemed to me they were more interested in ogling pretty girls than in the quality of the retouching. The "girl" I chose was a beautiful (to me) elder and I used the Dragan effect on the picture. I got slammed because she wasn't a young pretty girl. I choose not to participate in a contest where quality is not important, only how young and pretty the girls are.

ouch... I'm sorry I didn't get to see the entry... GK - wrong comment imo