If I'm not mistaken, the diffuse reflectivity is already at 1 here. I could either make the skin tone brighter or edit the maps. They are pretty orangy, so I used a greenish yellow skin tone to counteract that. Maybe reducing the saturation of the maps and adjusting their hues a bit would be a better solution.

At any rate, I think the VSS version actually looks pretty good. It's just that the white background doesn't match the lighting I used, which is entirely my fault.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.