Margery, a woman somewhat older than 45, went ahead with a mini face-lift a few weeks ago. She's happy with the results. She mainly wanted to fix her sagging jowls. She says she didn't like to see "how my once sharp jaw line was rounding, sagging; how my once smooth, taut cheeks were collapsing over my mouth."

Why did she do it? She says she probably wouldn't have gone ahead with it if it wasn't for everyone else in her social circle getting something done. She says her mini face lift was about keeping up with other women;

"If none of us could do anything—from Botox to facelifts, maxi or mini—then we’d all go to seed together. As it is, we have this arsenal of options available. They work. Ignoring them has become akin, at least among certain women, to “letting yourself go,” as Mother used to say. The dilemma’s analogous to steroids in baseball. If half the team’s doing them, the other half loses its edge. Then what?"

See her mini face-lift story here.