I like this a lot - but as it's more in the line of "High Key" than "High Contrast", I can't give you the rating I would have liked if this was a free study. It just doesn't meet the challenge description...
Interesting pose - i was thinking that it was something I had seen before - but I like how it's only the eye. None of the nose or anything, it let's the skin of the face and arm blend together.
while this is a beautiful image of a beautiful woman, I would not really call this high contrast, in fact it has such a gentle amount of contrast that it would be low contrast...sorry :-( 6