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Please take this the way it is meant.
Just a couple of points you have just the touch of halo on her right arm and the dress on that side. You could also soften her right side of head a bit more into background. Other wise great picture.
Very good effort, next time you try, think of what you are wearing as the bright white catches the eye and draws the viewer away from the face. Get a sheet of white card and put it the other side of the head from the light source to bounce light back into the hair. As you are loosing all the detail in your version.
I will leave the other comments to the rest, but what I would have like to have seen is a different pose with your head, a gentle look down you shoulder and then looking back into the camera would have so much more power. But considering this is a self portrait I think this is a very good effort and good place to go forward from.
I think this is a great idea and you have got the angles and the tone about right, the light is a touch to flat. Increase the light just a touch from the right and bounce a reflactor over the bass shoulder would have made it more bramatic. Also watch your focusing, when taking pictures like this that eye has to be pin sharp. But good effort.