Polarizing filter, it’s sun glasses for your lens. There are even ones you can get for point and shoot cameras. Not sure what you are using. You could try stepping down the high lights in you soft ware a bit as well. This will decrease the brightness of the shot, but only the high intensity spots, then you can compensate with increasing the exposure a bit. This might get rid of or at least reduce the glare from her cheeks.
It looks like she is out of focus, or is that just because her skin is too soft. Love the background in the second one, but again it looks like the rocks are more focused that she is.