Based on your comment on FB ... here is my suggestion. Remove the SSS entirely. Plug the diffuse into the alt diffuse. Make the specular color neutral grey and lower the value quite a bit. Let us know how that works. I'm not sure you need the mask at all. Not for the specular setting you have here. Finally make sure the gamma setting is custom and set to 1.00.

Boni

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