Regarding the skin, it's hardly surprising it has so much plastic shine. The Specular value is set to 1 with a fairly bright Specular colour. I would change the Specular colour to quite a dark grey. Or dark gray if you are in the US.

:O)
Izi

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)