I think you need to mask out the face on the processed version. It's the only point where there's a distinct improvement. Other than the face, the colors seem desaturated in the processed version, particularly in the pink shirt and both red heads. Actually, looking again, if you didn't say which was which, I'd have probably thought the first was the processed. The contrast and colors are just better in the first, even though the face is lifted a bit better in the second.
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