Out of the three, I like this the best. Having said that I would crop these images to take out the dark granulated arms and just concentrate on the faces, probably by reducing the image area to about 1/3rd.
It's funny that you say that because I was kind of thinking about cropping the ones that I give as gifts. As for my portfolio, the purist in me is on one side of the fence and the capitalist on the other. Thanks for the suggestion, Clive.