Sarcastic Kirshi

The eye area of the image is captivating. The eye is really stunning and the blush on the cheeks is really nice.

The eye shading and the hair shading is very crisp, and where the skin meets her top is also nice and crisp, whereas the shading on her skin and top isn't so crisp.

By putting a harsh shadow under her chin, it would define the image more, because as it is, it all sort of blurs and smudges into one, making her look as if she's pushing her chin down, which would reduce the definition of where the chin meets the neck. It takes away from the beautifully sarcastic look of the crisp eyes.

Due to the soft shading on the top and skin, the hair then looks out of place because of how crisp it is. By taking the smudge tool at a medium strength over the hair, it would stand out less, because it's distracting from her beautiful eyes at the moment.

Skin reflects everything that's around it. This becomes tricky in an image with a transparent background, so assuming white would be the background colour is often a good move, because even if the image is posted against a black background, it'll just pop and look alright as well. White is a pretty standard background colour. This can be achieved with curves (Ctrl+M/Cmnd+M), by selecting the blue channel and placing two points on the diagonal line and dragging the rightward point down and the leftward point up to make a sort of 'S' shape.

Because of the soft shadows, the features on the face seem a little squashed even though they're not. By darkening the shadows and reinforcing more highlights, it puts more dimension to her face and ensures that the features don't seem crammed on.

Skin is also a pink colour, and although lots of people have different shades of all sorts of colours for their skintone, it boils down to peach or pink, and so shadows are often more pink than orange.

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I did a quick paintover, where I redefined the highlights on the chin, did a quick paint on the hair with a low opacity brush. I don't know what hardware you use, so I just used a mouse. I brought more pink tones into the skin, redefined the lips and added the same colour from the blush into it. I desaturated the blue of her top to make her eye stand out more, and painted some nostrils in to add more dimension.

I hope I haven't come across as some massive bitch during this whole thing and I hope it helps or you can take anything away from my critique.

I really like this image and see a lot of potential in it and I see a lot of improvement in your gallery, and hope you continue to improve.

Also, by adding some harsher shadows without a soft brush, you can really add dimension.

Anyway! Fantastic image. I'm so jealous of your eyes.