Hi mthphoto
Nicely taken shot. I detect some tension in your posting in response to mooseeye’s posting. If you click ‘quote reply’ button of that person’s post, we can tell for sure that you are replying to a particular posting. I think you have misunderstood mooseeeye. Not knowing what you have done to the picture (you didn’t mention any), mooseeye was trying to tell you in a ‘creative’ way that there is too much red in particular areas of your model. Others have assumed you increased the saturation and said so. Mooseeye considered other possibilities, such as a balance shift.
Turning down the saturation does make it a more beautiful picture, as shown by MyPharo’s attempt. The row of red flowers is not so dominant now and the viewer’s attention is now concentrated on the girl. If her skin tones are warmer looking than that, then just increase the vibrance a bit more. I would then turn it into B & W and I think it would look just as nice. You may need to soften the harshness with decrease contrast, increase brightness, etc. Just play around with settings to get a softer overall effect which is more suitable to a girl image, IMO. Even a soft focus effect may be nice, although out of fashion these days. The row of now whitish flowers may need burning in to reduce its impact and distraction.
Have a go and post again.