This is one of the latest images from my Reflections series:
Aestheticia
Created and rendered in Blender 2.49.
I hope you like it. Thank you for viewing my work!
RobertT
The overall detailing and style is quite good, though I’m not so sure about the face (the lips and nose look more like metal pieces attached to the face rather than part of it)
Thanks for the reply, Ace Dragon 
This “Reflection” series is metallic and stylized as it is all by design.
These are not so much faces as they are more of masks (as in Jungian personae) or simply metaphors.
RobertT
oooh! very nice!
I wouldn’t have seen this had it not been for your other ‘recent projects’ thread (I need to visit finished projects more often!)
I always like these intricate designs, but what I’m always more impressed with is your eye for color
I’d be really curious to see a raw render of this, without any nodes or other post production. what kind of image do you start with before you work your node-magic?
Yeah, your sense of color is awesome Would love to see a viewport screenshot and the nodes of this one 
Jeepster and agentmilo: Thank you both for the wonderful words!
The plain render tends to be more golden and a bit brighter. Nodes were used mainly to tweak colors, apply some smoothing, adjust the contrast, and add a touch of noise to the final image.
I’m so thankful that I can all of that and finalize everything right in Blender.
RobertT