vanity ?

I know you are still beautiful at your age now. Are you allowed to wear tight jean skirt to the office? I think you will look more attractive in that.

Hi! There is nothing wrong in papmpering yourself and looking good by way of wearing nice make up and dresses. It is a positive quality to make ourselves smarter. This shows we value ourselves and keep telling ourselves how important we are. Others always appreciate when we are smartly dressed. Keep it up.

Well, it's becoming normal nowadays. But since you said you belong in the middle aged people, then maybe, yes, it's vain. It's good for yourself when you always make yourself look good for the people around you especially when you're going to work.

A typical form of vanity is what you had described above. For me, I don't think that there's a dilemma to be in this kind of rituals for beauty. Some guys do the same thing.

It's just proper to pamper one's self and be happy. It's one way of keeping the youthfulness outside and inside. The more you give value to beauty, the more the life would reveal it's beauty to you:)

Hi Friend, Well you're vain but in a good way. They always say 'Dress to Impress' and that's what you're certainly doing. Most of the time we really have to dress good to feel good. When you're always in your best self then you're ready to take on all challenges with confidence. It's always better to dress up than to dress down. :)

Personally I always defined vanity as being consumed with looks and thinking that because you have looks then you should get something. Like, "I'm beautiful, so people should like me." Or, "I'm pretty, so I should get that job." Or, "I'm good-looking, so that person should want to date me." I don't think there's anything wrong with paying attention to how you look and trying to look your best, as long as it's not all-consuming.

Hi SimplyD Look Good is what everyone tries to do. And trust me, i believe looks are good only when you have a cleaner and puerer heart with noble thoughts. I have seen you only on Photos and known you only via your discussions, but from them I can be sure that in real life too you are someone who has a nobler thought and a clearer and cleaner heart. That does make you look good somewhere. And the makeup and other things you mention that you do when going out for work or otherwise, definitely, these are the times when you have to make yourself presentable, professionalism does demand many untold and unwritten things

Here too women are more conscious of their look, more so the office goers, when women cross 40 they become more careful too, this i say from my experience, the lady lecturers are more careful. thanks for sharing

No you're not vain my friend. You're just making yourself presentable at work. Just keep it up.

ohh not at all dear. Actually all this has become normal these days. Even the climatic conditions are not good with lot of pollution so we need to take some extra care of our body.

No, I won't consider that as being vain. Getting yourself a new bag or shoe whenever you can is just normal. making sure that you look presentable, is just normal as well. In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others (wikipedia) and what you have been doing is just normal.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to look good, if its something that makes you happy and feel good about yourself. You said you get your "vanity stuff" whenever your budget allows you to so I assume that you have a good control over your spending and that's even better. It means while you pride yourself in looking good, you don't let this take over your life,nor you sacrifice the basic necessities over these stuff. I myself likes to take care of myself and pamper myself once in a whole, like some sort of pat in my own back for a job well done either at work or at home. And whenever I "beautify" myself, the shine in my husband's eyes tell me it's all worth it. But like you, nothing too expensive and I make sure that I don't go overboard.