ComfiSkin vs Olay Skin Advisor
Olay Skin Advisor looks at a selfie, tells you how old your skin looks, and sells you an Olay routine to fix it. ComfiSkin reads the products themselves and tells you whether they suit your skin, with no selfie and no age.
Your skin looks 34.
Here’s a moisturiser to go with it.
The short answer
Olay Skin Advisor tells you how old your face looks, then sells you Olay to fix it. Olay says the more photos it processes, the more it learns, so your selfie helps train it. And its new “after” preview doesn’t even show your face. It shows a stand-in.
What that means: it turns insecurity into a shopping list, and uses your photo to get better at it. How old you look isn’t a skin problem. ComfiSkin tells you whether a product suits your skin.
Side by side
| ComfiSkin | Olay Skin Advisor | |
|---|---|---|
| What it looks at | The products | Your face |
| What it tells you | Whether a product suits your skin, and why | How old your skin looks, plus an Olay regimen1 |
| Your photos used to train its AI | It never asks for your face | Yes, by Olay’s own description2 |
| The “after” picture | Your own check-ins over time | A stand-in model, not your face3 |
| Checks products you already own | Yes | No |
| Guesses how old you look | No | Yes |
Selling insecurity, one number at a time
When Olay launched Skin Advisor, it explained that one selfie is used to work out your “skin age” and which parts of your face are driving it, and then it recommends a regimen. Olay’s own announcement defines skin age as how young or old a person looks.1
That number isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a feeling, usually a bad one, delivered by the company that sells the cure. It’s an old sales trick with new technology: make someone feel older than they are, then offer the fix, and make sure the fix is yours. Every step of it works for Olay.
ComfiSkin never puts a number on your face. It tells you what’s in a product and whether it suits the skin you actually have, so you buy things for what they’ll do, not because an app made you feel worse.
What that means for you: a disappointing number makes you feel you need to buy something, and the shop is right there.
Your selfie helps train it
Olay has described Skin Advisor as a system that improves with use: “The more photos and data that are processed, the more Skin Advisor learns.”2 That’s how this kind of AI works. It also means your face is part of the training, helping the system get better at selling the next person a routine.
ComfiSkin never asks for a photo of your face. If you choose to keep progress photos in your journal, they stay on your phone.
What that means for you: once your face has been used to train an AI, there’s no taking it back.
The “after” face isn’t yours
In June 2026, Olay added a preview of how your skin might change after four to eight weeks of its recommended routine. Haut.AI, the company that built it, says it runs on a “Virtual Companion”, described as “a representative skin model aligned with the user’s characteristics”.3 In other words, the face improving on screen is a stand-in, and the routine improving it is Olay’s. It isn’t a forecast. It’s an advert with your features.
ComfiSkin’s journal lets you track your own skin with quick check-ins, so any before and after you see is really yours.
What that means for you: the result you’re shown is a simulation of someone like you, not a promise about your skin.
What to do instead
- Ignore your “skin age”. It measures how you look in one photo, not how healthy your skin is.
- Be choosy about which apps get your face. Once a photo has trained an AI, you can’t take it back.
- Track your real skin, and check real products. Scan what you use in ComfiSkin and keep your own check-ins on your phone.
Sources
- Olay’s announcement of Olay Skin Advisor, via La Opinión LatinoWire. laopinion.com
- Practical Dermatology, “Olay rolls out the Olay Skin Advisor 2.0”. practicaldermatology.com
- Haut.AI, “Haut.AI collaborates with OLAY on Virtual Companion technology”, 11 June 2026. haut.ai
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