Thanks for your thoughts about this. I agree the the skin is highly exposed, but I was going for a high key look. If you check the large size on flickr, you'll see there is still good texture to the skin, so it's not completely overexposed (well, maybe the third shot is).
When working close to the extremes like this, it is also very monitor dependent. Yours and mine may be calibrated differently. Either way, the overexposed or near-overexposed look is part of the style I'm trying to get for this one. I think I actually increased exposure on most of these in RAW by about 0.4 before converting to JPEG, because they weren't quite bright enough to me to start with.
If I can get a black background that I'm happy with, then the next series will probably be low-key and verging on underexposed, just to try something different.
Her eyes are certainly close to that blue. (But not exact!)
They have a slight unsharp mask over them to bring out the catchlights and a blue colorized hue/saturation adjustment layer to make the blue a little more intense.