Well, I use an Acer laptop with an Nvidia card and an external CRT as a secondary monitor, and its default screen was ridiculously bright.

The CRT is set to 1.2 gamma to compensate for it's age, but the laptop LED is set to 0.5 gamma for a comparable brightness !

Soo, my point is: Take any suggestions of "you're pictures are too bright" with a big grain of salt unless it comes from a person whose monitor is actually properly calibrated.

Chances are they sit in front of a searingly bright LED monitor and never bothered to check the default settings.

90 percent of the pictures out there on the web look perfectly fine on my CRT, so even without exact calibration, I'm sure it's current brightness is pretty realistic.

There is an ever growing number of "too dark" pictures resulting from the fact that more and more people use those overly bright LED monitors without adjusting the default settings.

So, again, don't go by what other people say unless they have a CALIBRATED monitor.

And just for the heck of it:

A) is fine

B) is washed out

C) a bit too dark

D) & E) are fine

F) is washed out

G) Too dark

 

In my opinion you're still having problems with the shaders and the light. Try adding a HSV node to the skin and crank up the saturation a bit. GC tends to drain colors so I set mine to 1.05 to compensate.