Indian Skin Tones

This young lady can trace her ancestry to the Aztecs. I told her I liked her profile and asked her to please pose for me. It was an interesting shoot. I was to use an old piece of jewelry I collected around her neck. I was after a dark, primitive and sensual look. The focus was a bit soft, hate her nail color, none would have been better.

I am sorry, I missed this until Ed posted.

I like the pose and the treatment of the subject and I like that you went for glistening and dewy skin, however I think you needed a little harder of a light source for that.  That may also help with the flat look that Ed mentioned. 

On my monitor it is a little red, a little dark and a little flat.  I think all three can be fixed in Photoshop.

She is very pretty, and I think it's great you were trying to shoot something true to her individual brand of beauty!  I strive so hard to do that with my boudoir photography, but a lot of girls are force fed that stupid one-size-fits-all mold of what beauty "should be" and it takes effort to get them past that.  I think here in this photo you really succeded.

Another note on post processing which unfortunately contradicts what I just said - but I would touch up the veins you see in her chest area.  They are normal, we all have them, we just don't want to see them in print

I am going to re-shoot it with a strobe and snoot behind her head to define the hair VS the background. I should be able to use a single flash and reflector fill and get some dimension (2 to 1 ratio) to the face to correct the flat look. I also believe that getting the flash further away will harden up the water droplets, what do you think Ed?

Depending on the type of light you are using, yes moving it away will tighten up the highlights on the water drops.  One problem though is that they also have to be sharp to show up well.  This will be counteracted by any "skin softening" actions.

Ed

Is her skin so bad you have to do softening effects?  I rarely do much skin softening between the neck and hips (just face and legs, if needed).  Instead of all over skin softening just clone out any little blemishes.  That should work, but it depends on your model's skin.

Love the pose and the application of the blue paint. I can live with her fingernail color, since it's not black, haha. I think it gives a good contrast between modern day woman and tribal warrior.

As mentioned, a hairlight would have been really helpful, especially with the jet black hair, but your lighting, once the levels were correct, is really pretty on her skin.

Below, you can see what I did.

First, I adjusted the levels. If you look at the histograms, you can see there is less space along the left edge on my version, helping to darken the blacks.
Then I did an adjustment layer and dodged a bit in her hair to make up for the lack of a hairlight.
I next got rid of some digital noise.
Then, I took Susie's skin softening action and lightly applied it to just a couple areas of her face and breasts.
I then got rid of some of the veins on her breast.
Going to hue and saturation, I desaturated it a bit, getting rid of some of the extra not-natural redness, but keeping the amount that Indian skin tones normally have.
Total time: 5min.

wildmavens version is really good. 
But going back to the original, I think the lighting was a bit off the mark, and perhaps the focus was off a bit.
The only thing I'd add to Marian's version would be a hard edge sharpening.

Are you using Photoshop? If so: Filter - Noise - Reduce Noise. Play with the settings until you get a look that's pleasing.