Fixed her skin, background, gold and little details

So for the most part I've fixed her skin...it's still not right but I can't place why it's not or how to fix it. I guess this will do for now. I don't know I've just been staring at this painting for too long but I'm growing dissatisfied with it, most of the problems I'm managing to partly fix but not completely, I feel like I can't quite see what's wrong. Still, it's nearly done, it didn’t stick to what I imagined but I suppose these things rarely do.

I darkened down the out trees in the background, trying to reinforce that the light source is the lamp, I was somewhat reluctant to add more paint to the background but the trees still had a weird pattern to them from the masking fluid and I could only really smooth that out with more paint. It would have been nice to keep the lightness they had before in some arias. 

The shawl's been lightened and I'm not sure if it's better, it definitely looks worse now in the photo but that's mostly because the gold when not reflecting is the same darkness as the shawl, in sunlight it looks better. I'm still not sure if I've made it better or not...at least it's not worse, the shawl was just too dark before but now it feels too unsaturated. 

I also went about adding the gold in the places I knew I wanted it...still not sure if I should do the chains of beads in gold or another colour yet though, we’ll see, I might mix it. I also added in more gems and filled in some of the arias on the crown. 

Few....I've wrote over 4000 words about this painting so far. If I'd written my essays for college like this, at least my progress evaluation ones then it would have been so much easier. They did get us to make blogs, mine s still kicking around empty and unused somewhere, but I didn't realise how much more I would write if I did it like this.... granted a lot of it is me grumbling about the same things over and over.