A Pink Truth Critic Will Pray For Us
Apparently this woman doesn’t realize it’s “sad” for her to have time to bash Pink Truth:
ladies, as a Mary Kay beauty consultant let me just say that i will be praying for you. praying that you realize you’re wasting your time. who really has time to look at the money other women are making and talk smack? wow! go spend time with your famalies or something.
we are a group of positive women who don’t get put down by your bull. the start up cost is $100. seriously? even if it Was a scam, that would be minimal. especially considering the fact that you get $410 of product.
for a lot of women who join mk its about more than money, but about building relationships with other women and we love it. plus, the extra money is nice 
if you didn’t do well you didn’t try hard enough or you (clearly) had a bad attitude.
my first two months in i made $1800! i heard about this site from a girl i wanted to recruit. she did the research, signed up, and just had an awesome debut!!! anyway! i hope you all realize that we love our lives as mk consultants and for you to have time to bash us is just sad.
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iDIQuit
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well that’s encouraging.
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onceapinkhead
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What’s a famalie?
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SuzyQ
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It’s kind of like a family, only different.
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DivaDove
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It’s a cross between a family and a tamale.
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enorth
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It’s Mexican snack food for a lot of people
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mlank64
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Here we go again. The same ole tired script about “praying for you”, “You didn’t try hard enough”. Really? Coming from somebody that just joined and worked through her warm market and only made $1800 in 2 months. Not exactly excutive income. So, if things are so dandy, why do you have time to come on PT and bother to comment. You know full well the cost is more than $100 dollars. You know you have to order an ungodly amount of inventory all the time whether you sell it or not. Money for monthly meetings, ridiculous events througout the year etc. clothes, hose and heels etc. Who do you think you’re talking to.
I think your’re hitting the wall. The appts are not sticking, more women you are trying to recruit are saying no to the “opportunity” than are saying yes. Your’re just not making that ‘excutive income. You better get used to it. Because what is really sad is that you don’t have time for family and friends because you’re running yourself ragged trying to “warm stalk” every woman you meet to either book an appt, hold a party or recruit. Wake-up from your pink fog and see things for the way they are not what your upline tells you. Because if its so wonderful, what the heck are you doing here tying to convince us otherwise. We already know the real deal, save the BS for your potential recruites and your self deluded MK friends. The bottom line is that your broke a… s aint making no money and you’re frustrated….that’s why your’re here.
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donsgir1
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Omg thank you all for this site! My husband and I both work full time but are still struggling. I was looking for some way to earn a little more money and thought Mary Kay would be it. I was going to meet with a consultant and purchase the starter kit today. (With money I didn’t have to spend) So glad I stumbled onto this site!!!!
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SuzyQ
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Um, sweetie? I have all the time in the world to bash MK. And it’s become my “mission field.” So there you go.
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kaykay
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All the same phrases.. IBC defenses are incredibly redundant.
“for a lot of women who join mk its about more than money, but about building relationships with other women and we love it.”
You have your family and friends for this. Treat it like a business, right? Should making friends be a valid reason to a purchase $3,000 worth of inventory? “You don’t HAVE to buy inventory!-” Shut up, I know you want me to. BFF.
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mammybear
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Building friendships? Although the women in my ex -unit were nice enough they certainly weren’t anyone I wanted a friendship with. Would never spend time with them outside of meetings. Didnt want to. And some that came and went sooo fast were questionable characters to say the least. Which relates back to MK will try to recruit ANYONE. Maybe they think MK can “save ” them.
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Lazy Gardens
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While she’s praying, I’d like a pony.
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ttp
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Ha!
My comment was going to be, “Oh goodie. Someone’s gonna get a pony!”
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stinkinpinkthinkin
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*YAWN*
Who really has the time to look at this site and talk smack about the things being written? Ooh, I know…. MK Consultants!
Your business must not be doing so well, if you have the time to read this site and bash us. Oh I know it’s hard when you’re trying to get people to pick up the phone-now they know who you are and are avoiding your calls. It’s hard when you walk through the stores and malls and people run from you because they don’t want to hear your pathetic lines. So, no wonder you have the time to read here.
Take your own advice: go spend some time with your family!
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Kinzie
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So you “made” $1800 in your first 2 months…is that free and clear, after taxes, expenses, etc.? If so, that is great! Come back in two more months and tell us how much you “made”. And then two months after that…..you get the idea. In addition, if you had bothered to read any of our personal experiences you would have known not to come on here and tell us we didn’t work hard enough. Do your homework before you start making false generalizations where you have no business doing so.
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Deflated Pink Bubble
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Where is my pony? Jeez, all these women are praying for us and Lazy and I STILL (in all caps) don’t have a pony.
This woman has an aversion for capital letters…. Not a one. Not even at the start of her sentences….
All her spew is the same old same old. Can we have someone come on her and bash us with something original please?
And last but not least, YES (again in all caps) we do have time to spend on this site because we are not running a hamster wheel trying to build a business that has no chance of making money.
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jlein
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No, no…she capitalizes Mary Kay…it’s like how you always capitalize God. Same kind of worship.
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NeverWasPink
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Hod? Are you there Hod???
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ttp
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ROFL!
Are you there Hod? It’s me, ttp.
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ShooterChic
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Hahaha! Oh Dear Hod, can you pretty please bless all of the PT ladies with ponies? Especially since you seem to blessing the MK women with mounds of money. >.> Where’s that :splorf: emoticon when we need him!
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MLM Radar Detector
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“the start up cost is $100… you get $410 of product.”
$410? LOL. Anyone care to add up the value of items in the Starter Kit and figure out how she thinks it’s worth even the $100 she paid? Didn’t she have to pay sales tax and shipping charges on top of that $100?
I count about $64 worth of stuff, most of it useless.
One thing is for certain. Mary Kay Corporate doesn’t give ANYTHING away. If what they put in that kit cost them more than $80 (giving them a $20 profit) they’d either change the kit contents or charge a higher price.
Mary Kay Consultant Starter Kit
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*Deluxe Carrybag
(Vinyl, Made in China, $20)
*1 package of unopened customer profile cards
*1 unopened pack of customer profile forms
*1 Pack of order forms/sales receipts
*10- Opportunity Brochures
*1 Package of Appointment Guide Instructions
*1 Agenda
(A bunch of forms from a mass-printing, $5)
*1 Consultant Guide w/DVD
*Mary Kay Starting Points DVD
(2 mass-produced DVDs, $1.98)
* What’s Inside Beauty Books (3 packages)
*1 Envelop Applause Quarterly Mailing
(4 small booklets, $2)
*Tinted Moisturizer Shade Selector
* 36 Samples of Satin Hands
* 6 Foundation Shade Selector (Medium/Full Coverage)
* 12 Lipstick samples (one time use- on a sheet)
* 6 sheets of mineral eye color samples (one time use)
* 2 sheets of mineral bronzing powder samples (one time use)
* 5 unopened mineral powder foundations ( .28 oz)
* 2 opened mineral powder foundations ( .28 oz)
(Small selection of single-use product samples, $20)
* 1 unopened package of plastic pallets for sampling of makeup
* 1 unopened package of disposable facial cloths
* 2 unopened packages of eye show applicators
* 5 unopened makeup brushes w/plastic case
* 8 black makeup bags
* 4 Travel Mirrors
(Small selection of items from the Trial Size rack at Wal-Mart, $15)
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iDIQuit
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Actually MLM Radar Detector, I added up the total *retail* price of the full size products for one of the last team members I recruited after she decided she didn’t want to be a consultant after all, and it does add up to $410 retail. Here’s the breakdown:
2 TimeWise 3-in-1 Cleansers- $18 each= $36
2 TimeWise Age-Fighting Moisturizers-$22 each=$44
1 Oil-Free Eye-makeup Remover=$15
1 Ultimate Mascara=$15
1 Day Solution SPF 35=$30
1 Night Solution=$30
6 TimeWise Matte-Wear Liquid Foundations-$20 each=$120
6 TimeWise Luminous Liquid Foundations-$30 each=$120
That total is $410 based on the “suggested retail price” of each product.
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Freefrmpink
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Remember MK wholesale is not the same cost as bc wholesale. Eye color probably only a few cents. (made in China)
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flaming go
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I love how these positively happy women are so full of perpetual joy that makes them entitled to be negatively condescending towards a site they somehow take personal. Proof they’ve made some second guesses but their pride won’t allow them to admit defeat. Instead, they go to great lengths to justify their position using any small example to cling to. After all, baseless justifications and name calling are far easier actions than thinking critically and admitting fault.
Oh the grammar… amazing. Your’re is my new favorite.
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raisinberry
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well now see I actually AM curious about what she would be praying about us. We must need prayer, in her eyes, but why? Because we’re unrecruitable? We talk smack about other women who make money?
SO her prayer goes up to the Almighty as, ” Dear Lord, please bless the women of Pinktruth so that they can see the error of their ways and rejoin Mary Kay and be on my team.” Something like that?
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Lazy Gardens
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SO her prayer goes up to the Almighty as, ” Dear Lord, please bless the women of Pinktruth so that they can see the error of their ways and rejoin Mary Kay and be on my team.”
Not until Deflated Pink Bubble and I get our ponies.
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pinkpeace
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Wouldn’t that be, “Dear Hord, please bless . . . “?
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ttp
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SPLORF!
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enorth
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Yo! If you are so busy praying, selling, and recruiting, how do you have time to visit – and read – this negative website?
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NoMoMK
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This chick is crazy! We’re only stating the obvious and her bruised ego can’t let her admit she made a bad decision due to the lies amd untruth perpetrated by this vile creature called Mary Kay!
In the words of Caroline Manzo “she’s all love love love…”
“Shutup”
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skeptigal
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She must feel threatened by this site. I mean, geez…there’s only about 9,000 members on the chat group. Each of them recovering from their own MK Hell.
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alaskan_blue
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Mary Kay is about building relationships with other women? Sweetheart, if I wanted to “build relationships with other women,” I’d be better off seeking and building them at a “specialty bar” in my town called Martha’s Vineyard and I’d only be out $30 in a beer tab and a perhaps a touch of humility.
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A Reader
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I wish more of these MK ladies really would pray. And maybe use a little spiritual discernment about who really needs the “MK opportunity”. Once, I personally watched a Mary Kay lady to recruit a naive, learning-disabled young pregnant woman who barely had enough money for groceries, let alone $100 + shipping to blow on a starter sales kit. Ironically, the young woman’s poverty is what protected her, since she had no credit and couldn’t raise enough cash for the starter kit. Maybe if there were more praying going on in MK, they wouldn’t have tried to take advantage of someone who was obviously desperate.
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skeptigal
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I wonder how many relationships she’s ruined because her friends and family are sick of being used to support her ‘business’, or how many of her neighbors now find her completely insincere because she can only now see them as potential recruits? I wonder how long her recruit will last, when she realizes those initial sales were only pity purchases? Sounds like she desperately wants to bee-lieve , but deep down she knows the truth.
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Scrib
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Mary Kay culture absolutely depends on the ignorance of women, friends, and the formula is simple:
1. Learn their heartfelt dream.
2. Tell them how Mary Kay can supposedly help them fulfill that dream. By doing this, the dream is linked directly to the company, and because the individual will defend their dream, you better believe they will defend their “rescuer” to the death, and ANY victory, however slight, will result in copious adoration and praises sung to Mary Kay.
3. MK culture reinforces this concept and rewards the continued ignorance with constant “no negativity!” preaching. Negativity in MK can include everything from a differing view of the business to questions that challenge dear old Mary Kay Ash’s racket to the core.
4. MK culture also uses its leaders to nurture ignorance by providing hollow scripts to its acolytes: I cannot tell you how many time I have heard, “You didn’t work MK hard enough!” even though I’ve been quite clear that I’ve never been in the business. So why do they automatically revert to the “You didn’t work” defense? Because it’s what their leaders say.
Here at PT, we don’t want women to go through life blinded and ignorant. We want them educated. Best of all, we’re free and require no monthly quotas be made in order to continue viewing the site. Can you get excited about that?
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ExAvonLady
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Found out a couple of minutes ago that my Avon district manager found a way to remove me from being a representative for personal use (which I was doing for one final month till my family finished stocking up on the stuff that they like).
She’s the First Lady of a “word faith” church, by the way — their theology says that they have a right to “name it and claim it” from God.
She found a loophole in the system which enabled her to cancel my contract even though it was supposedly guaranteed until the end of the next fiscal year. My husband’s first comment: “God must have a reason for her to be there, but d——d if I can figure out what it is.”
I can’t underwstand how people can look themselves in the mirror, let alone get down on their knees to talk to their Creator, while abusing the innocence of their new recruits.
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The Rose
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Building relationships? My director loved, loved, loved me! But when I quit, she never spoke to or corresponded with me again. If that’s how you treat your “friends”, I’d hate to be your enemy!
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pinkshelly
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Let me tell you that this is correct as an independant consultant it’s all about the director keeping their pink cadi. My director said this to me:
After much thought and prayer I have come to the decision that it would be best for all parties involved if we parted ways. I think you have a lot of enthusiasm for Mary Kay, but you want to do it your way, not mine. That is completely OK because we are all independent contractors in this company and nothing is mandatory. However, I have sensed some hostility from you that I feel is detrimental to both of us, and therefore, feel that it would be best for me and my unit if you refrained from participating in any of the events I or the Directors I work with provide.I really do wish you the best of luck on your Mary Kay journey.
Is she kidding me???? Well I am sorry I don’t want to LIE to people & give them $5.50 cent rings for them to sign on….if they want to sign on they will if they only want to do an initial order of $200 that is fine with me she also said she couldn’t work with someone like me that only pushes $200 initial orders. Well guess what I am not done with her.
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Rachel
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I’m recovering from my mary Kay hell as well. I’m trying to get rid of my ridiculous amount of inventory and I have been threatened to be turned in for advertising and selling at garage sales. Selling it for 50% off or less just to get my couple of thousands back! I have been manipulated, lied to and made to believe I was doing every wrong. I have a family I like to relax with at the end of the day…not call and hound people to buy a freaking bottle of mascara! After this I will not be using Mary Kay products!
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some1isme
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Find a good friend-sell everything to her for a dollar(plus tax lol) She is not a consultant & can then sell it on ebay. If she chooses to take you on a cruise when it is all sold-well, that is her choice!
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