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The camera was not balanced to the color of your light and that is giving you all these unnatural yellow tones. In standard indoor artificial lighting set your white balance (if digital) to tungsten. If shooting film, buy tungsten film, not daylight.
She must be taller than you since you shot her from below, which over-emphasized her nose, in my opinion. Next time you could set things up so the camera is at her eye level. Stand on a step stool if you need to.
I agree with Linda's suggestion that everything around her face needs to be beautiful too. Dress her in a lovely outfit, put her in a nice chair, and don't make her have to worry about holding a cloth up next to her face.
I also agree with Mike's input, that the more you shoot, the better you get. Shoot THOUSANDS of photos. (This is where digital comes in very handy. I shoot one or two hundred shots of each model I work with.) I'd concentrate on photographing people as much as possible for the practice stuff, though.
Ask friends of your kids if they'd like to "be a model". What young adult or teenager would say no? You can pay them a few dollars for a one hour session, or give them or their parents an 8x10 of the best shot as payment . They'll be flattered you asked.
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