Layer Masking help would be much appreciated!

I'm not quite sure what I did to screw this up, but for the past few days, I can't fully airbrush blend/ remove parts of an image when layer masking (i.e. when airbrushing out @ 100% hardness, opacity, fill, flow... all the good stuff... the image I'm trying to airbrush out remains as though I've just taken the opacity or fill down to about 5%). I've tried messing with different types of brushes, but nothing seems to work. Can anyone shed some light on the please?

Well, I dont know what it is, but you might need to check the opacity and fill of the layer.

Salvadore said:

Well, I dont know what it is, but you might need to check the opacity and fill of the layer.

Nope, tried that. Checked to make sure the opacity of the brushes wasn't off either. This might help as a visual...

Are you sure you are using pure black when you are painting the mask? If not you might get something like you image shows.

Haha... I managed to completely overlook that! You are my savior, Sir!