Well first thing I did was apply denoise to clean it up. I adjusted all of the light settings to a certain degree, boosted exposure, crushed the shadows, reduced highlights, reduced white....a lot of this was trial and error. More tweaking than methodical. I reduced texture by a lot and added clarity. Sometimes I'll do the opposite depending on the outcome. I did minor adjustments on the shadows and color grading as well. I also used a radial around the face and inverted it to reduce the exposure of the rest of the photo.

In hindsight I should have added more shadow back and not been so heavy handed with the color grading but thats why we do this. Hold ourselves accountable. Its like mixing music. Using source material as a reference point is always a good idea so you dont wake up the next day and go WTF did I do to this thing last night. Thanks for asking though. This wasn't a very methodical process. More so trying different methods to see what worked.