I was lucky enough to win a Goodskin Labs (GSL) Smooth-365 Intensive Clarity + Smoothing Peptide Serum from GSL’s Facebook contest a few months back. I have been hearing lots of good reviews of the product from stellar beauty bloggers such as Shen’s Addiction, Askmewhats, and Project Vanity. So imagine my surprise and extreme delight when I found out I won one!

Package came with a note from Rizel whom I worked with at the Philippine Online Chronicles before. :)

Since  GSL’s product is a mouthful to state in full let’s call it Smooth-365 for brevity.

What does this serum do anyway? Based on what’s stated in its packaging, it claims the following results:

Immediately: 71% measurable improvement in skin clarity in clinical studies.

4 weeks: 3 out of 4 subjects felt their skin was velvety smooth.

According to GSL’s official website:

Smooth-365™ perfects the overall quality of your skin instantly and promotes smooth, less-lined looking skin over time. Formulated with Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 and special clarity-boosters, it attacks dullness and uneven skin tone on contact and faces off against lines and wrinkles over time. This one technologically advanced product does it all.

Based on their claims, Smooth-365 seems to be a wonder product no?

Well, I can’t attest that all their claims are true since I don’t use this product everyday (I don’t want it too run out fast), but I can say that the smoothing and clarifying effects are instantaneous. 

Check out the photos below:

(Left - before application; right - after application)

Off the bat, you’d see that most of the lines under my eyes vanished and my face is a tad clearer and more matte than before. I know you can’t see it in the photos but my face became smoother as well.

I used Smooth-365 as a primer too and I must say, my foundation held better than it used to. Smooth-365 + my trusty foundation (Shiseido Pore Mattifying) = matte and less oily skin for the whole day. The last photo is the one with foundation.

The consistency of the serum is reminiscent of Pond’s Flawless White serum, as it glides like air on my skin. It’s so light that as if I didn’t put any product on my face. I love this factor because I don’t like the feeling of putting too much gunk on my face.

Unfortunately, what this product doesn’t do is hide my humongous pores. Well, Smooth-365 wasn’t made to address that problem anyway. They have a different product for that — the Z-Pore Instant Pore Refiner.

In all, I’d say this product is worth its P2,000 price tag. It acts as a good skin buffer and primer, and it has anti-aging properties as well.

Summary:

Likes:

- instantly smoothens and clarfifies skin

- improves effect of foundation and makes it last longer

- has anti-aging properties

- feels light on the skin when applied

- product is filled to the brim

Dislikes:

- the price tag! (It’s a bit steep for a student - technically, I am still a student)

Have you tried Smooth-365 before? What are your thoughts?