Person changes

I found that it's much more fun to change in persons appearance, than mixing with fictional images.. Now i have this picture (watch below).

I have already changed her eye colours, made a slight twinkle in her eyes, i made her skin smoother, i have remade her lips, i have used the warp tool on her cheeks and the like, and i have just recently repainted her hair..

Questions:
1.
I told you that I recently remade her hair, and that is also true. However i can not seem to figure out, how to make her hair black. The colour can simply not be made.. I'm using the colourize option (Shift + L), and it does the job beautifully. I know you can use (Shift + H), however this is just painting the entire area, meaning if I use the black colour, all her hair is just instantly black, without showing any features ( It justs one big square of black ). How do i make her dark haired ? :D

2.
I told you I remade her skin, however I used the skin smoothening for most of it, however the picture becomes very "animated" when using this tool.. is there other tools or anything i could use for such things?

Also, be welcome to give me more things to change, if you can figure out anything, i'd be glad :D

For the hair you'll have to work with curves as well. Create a new layer for the color and then adjust the curves for this layer only.

I'm don't think i follow you. I cut out the hair, and make that a layer for itself.. and then what ?

right mouse clik on that new layer and chose than new adjustement layer curves....



to make it not look animated is about your skills when retouching