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Hey, Nacho ... IMHO, even though the Gaussian blur / overlay technique is the skin "smoothing" technique mentioned 90% of the time on the net, I've always found it has a tendency to produce a plastic look. It can easily remove too much of the small scale structure of the skin -- especially when used by a PS newbie.  

IMHO, the best technique is to first work on the worst areas with a very small spot healing or clone tool, then use the frequency separation technique.

Unfortunately, that's a bit beyond the reach of most newbies, but I've found that the 2 ACR technique is a good middle ground (in complexity and quality) between the frequency separation and Gaussian Blur/overlay techniques.

Anyway, this discussion probably makes absolutely no difference now because there's no evidence that the OP has continued to read it.  He has never even returned to say, "thank you for the time you guys have put into answering my question" or show us what he was able to do.

Tom M