You could put the PDA in a drawer and let it stew for a week!
If I hadn’t done the girl’s hair brown, I could have made her dark-skinned, which is easier to color than a white-people shade that doesn’t look crazy. Maybe if I go really light with “Desert Sand,” it would work.
You could make the girl coffee-brown...and put gold high-lights in her hair. I’m sure she won’t mind.
Remember that shading can render an otherwise “blah” coloring page into something spectacular. Experiment. You can always print out another page.