I love the brighter v, i also like the ripple effect, i just think it should have been cleaned up a tad, some places the ripple effect is hard.

I also feel you lost some of the colour in her face when you added a light source, I would suggest putting a photo filter on it and erasing everywhere but her skin area.

other than that, good job boys ^^ you made a pretty together ^^

p.s gimme render :P