In Effect/Blur, I blurred it for softness.

I reused this image I made previously. I made it in iColorama from a Pixabay image by processing for tone, smoothness, to fix the eyes, and to warp it and crop it. Not so relevant to my final result, but I used a background from the iColorama background exchange,which you can find here. I think this one was made by Donald Bishop.

Now in iColorama, I used Effect/Distort to distort the face over the abstract pattern. I used my fingers to position the girl over the pattern, and used the Distortion slider, until I found something I liked.

I used Effect/Scrape for a more smeary look.

Now I painted in some pupils in the eyes, then blurred them to soften the edges, then added a bit of contrast to the eyes in Adjust/Levels using an inverted brush mask. What I did was this: I blended with an earlier version, to make sure I had the color right. I brought up the brush mask bar and touched Invert. Then (I hardly ever do this) for each eye, I chose a brush mask brush whose shape I though would fit in with the distortions, and I played with the brush mask brush settings to manually rotate the brush shape to what I wanted (I did this separately for each eye, using a different brush for each eye), and then daubed a spot for the pupil. Getting the rotation right involves a lot of trial and error, because there is no preview. After I was satisfied with this step, I removed the brush mask. Then, for the blur, I tried some directional blurs under Effect/Blur. I tried all the settings such as direction, velocity, radius, where they were available. I did a different blur for each each eye separately. And separately for each eye, I brought up the brush mask bar and touched Invert, and used a very soft round brush for the brush mask, I think the first brush under the first brush group, and I painted in the blur over the pupil.