...amd here is what I use for most of my characters. As you see the diffuse color is not black. If I want it to look black I use a kind of very dark gray. For Antonia I use a dark brown, a color that looks pretty natural if you are not going for a mascara look or want it to go together with an asian or african/afro-american character.

I confess that I am unsure if it makes any sense to plug the texture into the transparency edge channel as well (as more as I set it to 0.0) - I think this part of the settings is a fossil or something like that that I carry around with me.

 

But anyway: The trick is to choose a paler version of the color you use in the diffuse channel for the specular color.
I am sure that some of you are able to come up with something more clever (or an advanced version) but I thought that this may be worth a look.

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

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