Need some advice...

So this is my first serious photo retouch using photoshop. I took this of myself earlier today and have been working on it all day. I have yet to find a good way to make my hair look bright and shiny yet still natural. Any ideas?

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7485/photoretouch1.png

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Out of 15 people that viewed this not one had a suggestion or a link?

I suck at hair retouching. Maybe duplicate layer -> gaussian blur -> set layer to lighten/overlay/soft (whatever looks best) -> add layer mask and mask away what you dont need

Try looking at this and this. Martin always has great tips and techniques. They're a bit more advanced, so let me know if you get stuck somewhere.

my best gues would be to surface blur at 1 px radius. set to screen and then mask unnecessary
great photo and you look amazing!

usually making hair look good rely's on the lighting of the photo. Once you have the lighting set people usually go back and clone out stray hairs and stuff. Since neither of these rly look like or are an option, i'd reccomend just making the contrast a bit higher.
Aside from that i rly wouldnt know how to make it look that much better, except for trying martin's tuts on them.
Great eyes.

So you'll never guess what I did.

I saved the above as a png to post on here, I resized the original PSD file to do so. But since it was extremely late, I accidentally saved my original PSD file. So it went from 2000+ pixels to 800x600. Needless to say I am pissed but I still have the original photo so it looks like I'll be starting all over again.

YAY!