Sometimes an image captures something that is incredibly elegant but somehow also comes across as rather stark and harsh. It needed some work to make a clearer overall impression. Softening and evening out the lighting, changing the fingernail color to coordinate with the lipstick color, working on the skin and hair, fine tuning makeup, and building a new background environment to create an impactful image that still comes across as dramatic while also having more of an understated and sophisticated softness to it.