Create High-Contrast-Look Portraits?

This is a recipe that works pretty well to create the trendy high-contrast portrait look. It starts with increasing the Contrast (here, I increased it to +27), and then opening up the Shadows a bit (here, I increased the Shadows to +16). But, the big things are the next two: (1) increase the Clarity quite a bit (it helps bring out the texture in the image, and here I dragged it over to +41), and then (2) drag the Vibrance slider to the left (I dragged it over to –23) to desaturate the image a bit (as seen above, in the After on the right). The settings I showed you here are for this particular image, but even if the numbers change a little bit for your image, the sliders are the same (add contrast, shadows, clarity,
and desaturate a bit).