Some asked for the original to work on - here is a jpg. If you want the full NEF (I'll convert to tiff) e-mail and I'll drop it somewhere and send you a link.
It would be helpful if you could give a summary of the processing applied...
Open in ACR and make some basic adjustments - increase exp., fill light, and recovery.
Duplicate layer. Use apply image with invert checked to copy the green (or blue?) channel over the duplicate layer. Pick the best channel to copy or try both. Change the blend mode to overlay. This will lighten the face. Also, you need blur the copy of the channel using gaussian blur.
Here's a version with ACR changes, some clone stamp work, USM, Hue/Saturation color and color balance changes, dodging, selective gaussian blur, and some vignette:
