Aesthetics Fantasy Face-up

I have no problem doing non-naturalistic face-ups if someone tells me what they want.

But when I try to do something that isn't the same limited palette natural style face-up I use on all my dolls, it's like No idea what I am ever doing...

Anyway, I recently acquired a Leeke Valentina and I did a sort of "brainstorming" face-up on her because I have no wigs in her size and needed to decide on her face in order to decide on her hair.

Points I know I messed up:

• Blushing is a little botchy. Might have been too humid today.
• I don't know when I did it, but I somehow dragged my brush or my hair over some of the tears before they dried and now there are stray mint lines on her cheeks.
• Because of above, I didn't finish adding dimension to the tears because thick globs of gloss are the worst for removing...

Points I'm not sure about:

• Yay or nay on the glued on elements?
• Should I have just gone with single color tears?
• Are the green tones too much?

Probably best to go full-view it on Flickr

Face-up experiment by Kaxen6, on Flickr

 

Thank you!

After stepping away from the head for a little, definitely agree. Gosh the minty tears kinda blend in.... Hate it when I get overly focused on something being a big deal but then when I come back it was like.... this is more subtle than I thought....

I'll try warmer tones for her next face-up.