Long story short, during a shoot I was doing today the light conditions changed pretty rapidly and I ended up with a V shaped shadow on one of the the model's arms and a dividing line on the other..  Unfortunately, levels, dodging, etc don't seem to be getting evened out, so I'm looking for ideas on how to fix it.  I can remove the shadows if I make a black and white adjustment layer, BUT then the colors are off if I try to change the layer to luminosity or whatnot.

Generally I'd post a image of what I'm working with, but I'm not at liberty to post the whole image.  The two little blurbs are about all I can post.

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So I've got the shadow mostly taken care of with multiple layers of frequency separated layers with fixes between them.

I've spent the last ~8 hours trying to color correct one of the portraits and had two 'I'm a retard' moments.  One, my computer had a hard crash the other day and lost a lot of data including my color calibration info and photoshop preferences.  (A new build is on my list of stuff to do as this thing is dying fast) and two was the big one.  I always forget that I'm slightly blue/yellow colorblind so it throws off my colors when I can't just trust photoshop to balance them itself.

So the portraits are going to be in either muted color (it was a 60's theme anyhow) or in B&W since there's no way I can get the colors perfect without messaging the guy a million times for tweaks.

Have you tried dodging it with a gradient mask applied to the area?

Self taught so I didn't think of that. Ended up with several different frequency separated layers stacked and tweaked until I got the skin tone I was looking for.