Hello, I am just wondering what level my retouch is right now. I've been doing beauty retouch just for a few weeks now and want to know if I am moving the right direction. Is it bad? Is it ok or fine?  I still have some problems with color correction and may be some more that you may notice.

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Here we go!
before

and after

It would be helpful to see the original to compare it to, but the first thing I notice is that her lips are in perfect focus and her eyes are soft focus. That could be from the photographer though.

Agreed the focal points are plain frickn weird.

I'm not sure how I feel about the tones of this picture.
The eyebrows need some work. I think they would actually work with the lipstick if you made them a little darker, too!
The edges of the hair are way too harsh now. I liked them better in the before image.
It seems like you lost details on the eyes, which makes it look a little funkly-weird... I think that's what the comments above this one are talking about. Maybe you sharpened everything else but the eyes... yee?

I think you are on the right direction, though! Nicely done!(:
Good luck!

*Edit
It might be my uncalibrated monitor, but I see some kind of "'cyan' infection" on her right side of the hair.

Thank you so much, it was really helpful:) I did sharpen the eyes, but not sure why they fave such an effect. Going to go through the layers and see what's going on there. Thanks again:)