By the way in my last render there in my gallery, "The Inquisition", I've used EZSkin for the human figures.

I don't think they look too sickly or pale? (even though one of them is meant to probably be a bit on the unwell side. LOL)

Maybe these examples do look sickly or pale to some people... it's so subjective really I guess, this sort of thing!

One's idea of what constitutes good skin tone will possibly be based on socio-racial-geo-cultural background I guess??

Coming from Scotland myself, good skin tone to me is probably just anything that isn't too transparent... ;-)

I have found I need to turn a lot of the default EZSkin settings down... specularity and fresnel reflections I think primarily.

In that render I've also manually applied SSS to the skeleton (based on a mat room sample posted by Anthanasius), the brain, the tentacles (based on BB's "Creepy Skin" post) and the beatles.

There's a variety of different results that can be had from SSS I guess... so of course it will need some tweaking for different applications / circumstances I suppose...