You totally underestimate yourself!  I don't understand half of what you just said, LOL!  Laurie talks circles around me as well.

Here is what I did to make the above:

1. Loaded v4 in DS (yea, i know, but I am in the render mood, and its less work to export right now), added AerySouls hair (alphaseed, sorry, it does the best job of any hair to have those nice fine strands, but it usually kills render time), loaded my new Natasha Elite skin (which was just on sale a few days ago for 70% off, those Elite skins are worth every penny, I've got the three I wanted now)

2. Added LSTank Top freebie

3. General V4 Pose

4. Set camera

5. Export via mjcTeleBlender

6. In Blender changed background to Sky

...then I had those eye issues above.  Thats it!  That was the 9/26 10am render.  That's why I am so impressed!!!  I never got this level of realism by doing so little.

I suppose you can do the same for the lips I did for the eyes...make it a mix shader, a factor of around 0.05 and gloss on the bottom of the mixer. Texture on top.  I may try it as well. Oops, just re-read your issue...yea thats a problem, you'll need a mask with a fading edge out from lips

I can't let go of Vicky, there is just too much good stuff for her!

I am gonig to start playing now with settings, one by one, and see how it works.

BTW, are you using a GPU/Cuda render?  I am, but its a laptop, and only 96 cores(?) for it, so its not terribly fast...but it lets me keep working while rendering. :)

If you get discouraged, drop V4 in real quick, get yourself a nice render, enjoy it, have a cool drink, pat yourself on the back, then dig in again! :tongue1: