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The way my hand shakes anymore I am forced to paint the eyes first. Next I do a base color coat for dark or light complexion. I then paint the hair. Next I do a quick clear coat so I don't mess up the eyes. Then I do the skin color. Another clear coat to protect that. Then I do an oil wash over the whole figure for highlighting and contrasts. Lastly a flat coat and a dusting with pastels. Not the best process, but it's the way I've done things for a while now. The bad thing is my eyes and hands just don't talk to each other as well as they use to.
for the eyes what I do is paint the face first; then paint eye sockets black; then do the clear coat. Then with white oil paint do two tiny spots on either side of eye socket and that looks usually pretty good. If they don't, I just clean the oil and start over. Sometimes I do need to retouch the iris/pupil with black to correct too much white. Good thing is that with the clear coat you can clean the oil paint as many times as you want and try again.
