I think yours look good! I love that about them! I think that's partly why I chose CDM :D
But what I do is play with the brightness and contrast on a duplicate layer, then I use soft light blending layers using a new transparent layer and trying different colours to see how they affect the look of the image. I found that using a soft light blending layer with a light purple (like a lilac shade of purple) works great for skin brightening. It is pretty fun to make 2 or 3 different soft light blending layers in different colours to see how it affect the look of the image too :)
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But what I do is play with the brightness and contrast on a duplicate layer, then I use soft light blending layers using a new transparent layer and trying different colours to see how they affect the look of the image. I found that using a soft light blending layer with a light purple (like a lilac shade of purple) works great for skin brightening. It is pretty fun to make 2 or 3 different soft light blending layers in different colours to see how it affect the look of the image too :)