Photoshop Week 3 and Finding the Inner Armadillo!!

Taking Phil's advice to start from photoshop portrait image, i done this portrait to use as a basis to build my splice through layers to let my "inner armadillo to emerge" XD.

From the workshop lesson i have began to work into the portrait changing the skin and the nose i decided keep the hair and the eyes as i feel they are the strongest feature that define me in the portrait.

I changed the nose and the texture of the skin as a genetic skin splice but i feel that i could take the splice a bit thurther... like adding ears changing the angle of the eyes making them smaller. Im still unsure as to how far to go with this.