I love the way my face 1 and face 3 MViera look. They have more light in their eyes then they ever did before, and my black haired one's hair is so dark I can't even see the details in his hair, where in live game it's quite dull and 'grey'.
Honestly your benchmark photos look like my live game, and your live game looks like my benchmark. With the exception of the lips I guess. Which do look a tad overdrawn now, but seemed to have been fixed on both of mine by moving down to 'light' and down a couple color shades. And mine doesn't look waxy at all, but I ran my benchmark on 1440p, and I know a lot of people did it on 1080p? I don't know if that makes a difference. But mouths IRL don't have shine to them unless you are constantly wearing gloss.
I'm wondering if a lot of people with the 'grey' black hair issue have their gamma adjusted in live game, but it's set at 50 in the benchmark, so it looks greyer then what they are used to because of that.