I'm surprised I didn't comment on this portrait when it was posted because to this day I regularly come back to it. What an amazing piece of art. 

The eyes are really great and the use of hair to highlight the face is very well made.

how thorough, i really appreciate this! thanks for being so kind and taking the time to respond :-D looking back at my process, it does make a lot of sense:

first i took a photo of myself with an instant camera (due to external factors it rendered me a ghost); i couldn't take any more photos since it was the last film i had on hand, so i decided to just roll with that,

coupled with the fact that certain shades of green exert a force on me - such that i'm compelled to use them when i can, the polaroid turned out the way it did.

and the stickers, well, i just had to, i guess! thanks again :-)

A) Selective usage of the palette for the portrait. Instead of using all colours you have chosen only that greenish ramp and used (mostly) only that for the portrait, so it have unique look and mood among other Polaroids. This was seen done by others but not with greens yet.

B) Now take everything what's left in that palette and make something else (stickers) out of it, which impacts the portrait by contrast - bright and happy colours of the stickers contrasted with dull greens makes them more dark, moody, melancholic, dirty, personal, introvert, overwhelmed, muted, withdrawn, sad - pick yours.

C) But these are stickers in meta world and those colour choices legitimise this idea and make it more clear. Photo is different than stickers, they are something outside of the photo placed on top of it. Thanks to those colour choices they are more separate, closer to us and more "real". They do feel like a tangible objects on that pixel Polaroid.

A + B + C = MINDBLOWN

at first i thought it might have been a bit much to put stickers but i'm glad i did anyway. i'm also curious as to what's so unique in my usage of the palette (incredibly flattered btw), because i can't come up with an explanation myself. thank you!

Your usage of this palette is so fresh and unique. I also love your stickers.