crazy and silly: before and after

It didn't take me long to remember these pictures from our beach trip to know which one to enter for this week's iheartfaces challenge. Haley and Hannah got silly at Taylor's birthday dinner and this picture got snapped:

"Before":

I applied the Pioneer Woman's "cooler" action twice, then applied an unsharp mask using these settings:

After duplicating the layer, I applied her "Slight Sharpen" action;

duplicating again, I appled the "Define and Sharpen" action, reducing that layer to 25%;

duplicating again, I applied the "Dim the Lights" action, and reduced the fill on that layer to 50% and the opacity to 66%.

another pic caught: