I really am not expectin this to do very good but oh well!!!! I like it!
cropped, selected area to desaturate, selected inverse and desaturated, selected inverse again and over saturated (probably get comments on it), resized, sharpened, neat imaged, sharpened again....sumbited!
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nice image, but way too much neat image/noise removal. all detail seems to be lost in this. with this being advanced, you can run the noise ninja on a duplicate layer, and then create a mask and with a black brush go in and paint over the areas where you want detail to remain, eyes, hair, for example. i'd turn the strength down on whatever noise reduction software you used on this. not downing the photo at all. just an opinion. she's a very beautiful girl and i like the detail work you did on the eyes.
Ok so the idea of the phone is not bad. maybe if it was shot from the front and she was holding the phone in front of her as she was texting. maybe jsut seeing her eyes over the top of it.