Keni, I for one approve of the restriction lifting - note just because they are not now telling people they "must" follow the protocols doesn't mean the more intelligent and prudent "won't" follow them on their own.
Think of it as an "IQ" test or Darwin at work. Survival of the fittest/most intelligent. I for one believe that one of the main reasons for there seeming to be a larger % of "stupid" people today is that modern society protects them from fatal results of their stupidity and keeps alive those who in the past would have been killed off by Darwin's Law so they survive long enough to produce more of their kind.

50 years teaching 1st Grade - tell your Aunt I salute her! That is truly outstanding.

I thought my 35 years of Jr & Sr High was pretty good. Actually I had planned to teach about 10 years longer until our youngest graduated from college but health problems hit and since I was already at the top of the scale for retirement pension my wife (Surgical Nurse/OR Charge Nurse) spent 6 months talking me into retirement.

I was resisting but one day in April on the way to work I got sick and had to pull over on the side of the road for 5 minutes. (diabetes and stress) I got to the High School and walked into the office to pick up my mail and sign in. The Principal was behind the counter so as I signed the book I looked at him and told him I had decided to retire the last day of the semester (June 29). He smiled, shook my hand and told the office manager to put the paperwork in my mail box so I could fill it out later that day.

All day I told my students what I had decided and just kept feeling less stress and better as the day went by. Some of them got together and the next day told me that in spite of the rules the last day was going to be an all day pot-luck and retirement party with all their friends who had been my students being invited also. Even some who had graduated showed up. And that last day a group stayed when school ended at lunch, helped take all my pictures off the wall, pack my stuff and load my SUV. When I drove off they were sitting on the steps finishing off the food left from the day.
After almost 14 years I still miss the students and teaching history - not the commute, paperwork or faculty meetings. Just teaching the students and telling them stories. I spell it history and was very good at making it a story, my students and even my wife told me so. Once she had a Candy Stripper who was one of my students and said she was having trouble in my class, it was "too hard". My wife told her I was her husband and "Just ask him about what you don't understand and then listen to his stories. You will understand it when he is done."

Sorry to ramble so long, today is one of those days I really miss being in front of a class and telling stories about history.

Keni such a lovely rendering of this enchanting mature Princess... superb hair styling... chic ear decor... albeit the choice of plaid wardrobe isn't in harmony with the "elegance" latent within... moving forward please consider plaids for causal candid only, k?

btw, asking for assistance in a photography forum is likely going to generate somewhat narrow minded responses... a.k.a. Maslow's hammer... Commercial portraiture is a team effort involving hair stylist, makeup artist, wardrobe styling etc. The photographer is only one player on this team no more and no less important in all other players. My credentials? I worked for "Glamour Shots" as a makeup artist at the bottom end and as the Key Makeup Artist on many high end Beauty Genre sessions. Enough said.

To answer your query I'm sharing with you some of the wisdom I've gleaned over the years. As other "Photographers" have previously mentioned you've not exposing this capture correctly... The tonal range is compressed nearly entirely into the low half of range. See below... A 30 second tweak in Photoshop brought back much of the missing range albeit at the dear price of stretching data way beyond practical limits... Had this been a commercial shoot the client would have rejected it and you would have to re-shoot it and eat the expense... experience is a brutal teacher..

From your web portal it is obvious you've been in the game for a while...
https://kenievansphoto.myportfolio.com/portraits-2

Your lighting setup is perfectly germane to the narrative here only the exposure and composition are an issue...
As for composition? This Princess' hand is a distraction... In portraiture the face should always dominate and be closest to the lens... few if any exceptions work well... Since there is no EXIF data in this image I'm simply guessing your FL is also way too short. This aggravates the perception of her hand being larger than her face. That is to be avoided in portraiture... Even though you have the hand elegantly positioned it is simply way too large... Always have the talent's hand(s) at the same distance as the face... I actually have them position them slight behind their face.

"... My friend, like the my model here has deep lines around her mouth. I want to help diminish them...
btw "Those Lines" are called the NASOLABIAL FOLD... and are typically professionally corrected with concealer makeup product... This is why Bridal Makeup Artist make the big bucks... Wedding photographers are notorious for not doing much in the way of PP corrections... A "Wedding" event is a women's most epic photo shoot of her life... It's got to be right in camera, period... Yes I had to master facial anatomy to obtain my Cosmetologist License in Makeup Artistry. Commercial Makeup Artistry is a Profession... while commercial photography is merely a craft which does not require professional licensing.

I could go on for hours here Keni but I have client work staring me in the face... Sorry, at the end of the day it's all about money... only hobbyist seek recognition and positive reinforcement... As the master poet of my generation once said. "It's either fortune or fame you must chose one or the other though neither are to be what they claim"

Wishing you all the best on your upcoming Princess session... just take care in positioning hands and try to avoid the plaid wardrobe, k?

And please stay safe... I closed my studio on July 1, 2020 because of the pandemic. Not in any hurry to open it again... Still trying to scheduled a vaccine injection... Even though I'm in Group 1A in my state it is still virtually impossible to find a vaccine source in Northern VA... Trust that your sitter has received her Covid19 vaccination.
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I think you have a very nice portrait here. But, it is far too dark. There is a big difference between editing for viewing on the computer, and for printing. I generally edit more with printing in mind, and I know that things always print darker, if not much darker than what you are seeing on your screen. Fine tuning the values is awfully hard to do without doing a test print or two. Anyway, this is my go at it. The first is pretty much as I think it might look. The second I think might be a better crop, and slightly brighter. None of the highlights are clipped, but sometimes you get a better print when they are. Printing will help you determine the darks.