Fiery, the first part is aout photography techinque. Start using your histogram on the camera itself. Take a shot look at the screen on your camera and try to get a nice bell curve on the graph. The first shot has too many hot spots on the left. Next time try her sitting completely in the shade. Bring along a foam board with aluminim to fill in some light from the sun or use a fill flash (not too much though).

As far as the photo not much you can do, but what part is good, is fine. Might take a little red out or add some yellow. her face seems a little red on my monitor.

Second photo is nice. Next time, see what it looks like if you shoot from above instead of below... could use some sharpening and see what smoothing will do to it...

I think you need to do a bit in editing, to really get the best out of your images. Like Jdawg stated viewing the histogram and levels can help some with the hot spots, also use curves, and some other adjustments including high pass to sharpen your images. I think they are some nice shots, but they could be great if you do some editing to them. Finally don't forget about cropping your images, take out some of the unecessary background information.

I think it is still need for editing adjust the colour and contrast.