Kotone - Casual Mannequin V2

The lovely Kotone/Philia from Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, turned into a plastic mannequin, which she will remain as for the rest of her days, modeling a variety of fashions over the years, such as the casual outfit that's displayed on her now.  While her memories have been altered so that she now views herself as having always been a mannequin, and as such never gets bored of standing still in a store (or occasionally its window) to show off its wares and attract customers, she still fondly remembers Kirito, who found her when she was trapped in the Hollow Area and whom she eventually fell in love with.  Before she met him, she was just hollow and had a meaningless existence, a lifeless imitation of a human being intended to display clothes yet locked away where no one could see her.  Yet he brought her from that dreary room, across the vastness of the Hollow Area, and back to civilization, giving her several new outfits to wear along the way, and now she stands in a busy store where she is well-appreciated. Of course, she knows that he cannot reciprocate her feelings, for he is a human and she isn't a real girl, just a mere mannequin, but she still hopes that he will come by every once and a while and look at her.  And when viewed in right way, the mannequin even appears to be blushing.  But that's just a reflection of the lights overhead.  Or is it?

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kurogetsui suggested that I tone down the flare effects as they seemed distracting. I haven't figured out how to directly change the intensity of a lens flare, but I was able to come up with a similiar, more subtle effect with some gradient flare layers, though it was also more time-consuming.  Anyways, is it an improvement over the other version?