text: Ever since I turned 30, when someone asks me: \"would you like to have a complimentary skin test?\" I hear Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch: \"Give her THE RACK!\" \n\nThe thought of someone telling me the potential pitfalls and imperfections of my face after 30 years just seems like the silliest form of torture. If you have no idea what i'm referencing, pop yourselves over to youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI) and waste five minutes in the best of ways.\n\nSo that's what I heard when the lovely lady at Elizabeth Arden asked me if I'd like to get my skin tested for radiance - a potential result that could only be compared to brilliant sketch comedy awkward.\n\nI don't know if it's a sales ploy, or if my mother's insistence that I wear sunscreen  daily actually did its job, but the result was much less painless then I imagined. In fact, i'm 95% radiant. That's right, i'm practically blinding you while you're reading this.\n\nWhatever it was, it made me feel pretty damn good about myself and after a quick chat, I happily bought my \u00a340 skin cream to maintain this 95% perfection. What struck me about this particular lady, is that no matter how ridiculous, I never felt swindled. Even when I asked what the best make up primer would be, she honestly pointed me in the direction of a different brand. I like that. She gets five stars.\n\nThe rest of the place however, is filled with surly looking staff that just seem to spend their time testing makeup on the back of their hands and looking bored. But the selection here is good and I can often cross eight birds off with one stone on a visit - so for that I give it a reasonable three stars. Eye rolling aside, it's a decent little pharmacy.\n\nBut if you're brave enough, wander over to Elizabeth Arden and chat with the lovely lady about how perfect your skin is. It's a hidden gem of an afternoon pick me up. Shine on ladies!