Vanity with limits

Is there such a thing as vanity with limits? Do the two words go together? I, for one, am perplexed by this concept. And by my own doing actually, which has triggered this thought of whether this concept is feasible. I just signed up for this facial treatment that is a power-packed treatment that delivers supposedly a pure doseage of vitamin C and AHA to my face and it is supposed to reduce the wrinkles and the sagging skin. Trying to defy my age. The facial lady adeptly used key phrases that she knew would throw me into fits of insecurity that will last half of my lifetime – “tired”, “inconsistent skin tone”, “bags under the eyes”… And of course I fell for it, and signed up for a package, for an amount of money that will actually cause more wrinkles when I get the credit card bill. But that wasn’t my point. My point is that I will try as hard as possible to defy age with all these treatments, but I am totally against going under the blade, or injecting anything into my body for the purpose of maintaining my looks. Hence my question on whether there is such a thing as vanity with limits. Not that I am scared of the knife or the needles, or the cost – because if you calculate how much I have spent on trying (key word – trying) to maintain my skin to look young, I could probably go under the knife a few times. So, is there such a concept?

I know I sound like I should be in the Bergdof Blondes novel by now. There goes my reputation.