Waiting for storms to pass

So I'm all jittery after waiting to find out if the storms in Oklahoma had affected my family there. Luckily, they are all doing good and no damage has been reported yet.
I have three new photoshopped pictures for you tonight.

I'm still trying to figure out how to change the eye color and keep it as natural looking as possible.
This first one is probably my favorite because the altered eyes look the most natural out of the three.

 With all three pictures I started out by cleaning up the image (blemishes, wrinkles, discoloration, etc.). Then I went about putting "makeup" on using Photoshop Elements and my Bamboo pen & tablet. I started out by applying a very light shade of pink to the lips (I kept the opacity levels very low so as to avoid it looking like I was coloring in Microsoft Paint). I then went about applying "mascara", "eye liner", "blush" and a few light shades of "eye shadows". I have the quotes to show that these things were not an original part of the picture and that they were artificially added thanks to Photoshop. Then I saved the image and started applying different filters saving the ones I liked the most as separate images.

Here you can see the color that I chose for the eyes this go around. I wanted to attempt the beautiful crisp ice blue that my grandmother has, I unfortunately didn't do that shade of eye color any justice but I still like my end result. Here you can see the applied "makeup" and I used a filter that is supposed to resemble a painting. Since my attempt at ice blue failed these eyes are much darker and the filter I used ended up making them look even darker.

This picture reminds me of the old hand tinted black and white pictures from the late 1800's and early 1900's. Those old pictures always appealed to me because they had such a soft look to them. I understand now that they looked that way due to the processes involved in taking and developing the pictures but I still find them very pleasant to look at.

In this picture you can see more clearly the color I was trying to reach in the eyes. When I started I chose a very bright, but pale, turquoise and then accented it with pale blue, nearly white. I then took my eraser tool and setting the opacity low began to "shape" the eye colors and revealing the pupil. The filter I used was called accented edges and you can see along the jaw line where the edge is brighter then it would normally be. I chose this filter because it showed the brightness of the eyes and gave it a texture and softness like a painting.

I hope you have enjoyed these, I am enjoying creating them and learning as I go.
XOXOXO