Iggy wrote:Time to move on I guess!
One of the beneficial outcomes of doing this type of project is that it encourages regular activity and practice. As we all know, not every shot works but I would argue that the failures are more important than the successes. Analysing what went wrong allows us to learn and move on, be better next time. Frequently, that progression means going on to the next "mistake". If nothing else, photography is a process of continuous self improvement. The fun bit is in the challenge of putting all that hard won experience into creating a sucessful image.
Sometimes post processing allows us to make corrections after the fact, sometimes not. JPEG is OK if the image does not require anything much further to be done with it, but the format quickly reaches its limitations. The JPEG compression algorithm discards a lot of data which Raw file processing can utilise. Your use of JPEG has probably made it difficult to do much about the highlights on the face. Next time, you could try setting the camera to capture both JPEG and Raw which will give you more options afterwards. Space on memory cards is no longer the issue it was and reasonably fast high capacity cards are inexpensive these days.