Welcome, New Visitors to Pink Truth
Thank you for seeking out Pink Truth. What is this site all about? You might have heard that this site is full of a bunch of bitter, lazy, disgruntled ex-consultants who are lying about Mary Kay Cosmetics. That’s not true, and I’d like to use this space to tell you what Pink Truth is really about.
The goal of this site is education. We want potential Mary Kay consultants (and current and former consultants too!) to know about the “other side” of Mary Kay. It’s not all Pink Cadillacs! What you are told by your recruiter and your upline is only part of the story. Pink Truth is here to tell you the rest of the story.
Mary Kay Cosmetics has spent 50 years developing and perfecting a positive image. The general public believes that Mary Kay is a company that helps women. The reality, however, is that Mary Kay Inc. is a predator. It preys on women who need something (extra money, more friends, a career, a purpose, etc.) and exploits those needs. Women are deceived in the recruiting process, and the deception continues as the consultant is persuaded to purchase more inventory than she can ever sell, to recruit other women by not giving them all the facts, and to continue to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars knowing that she will almost certainly never earn that money back.
In addition to providing a place for Mary Kay consultants to share their experiences and opinions of Mary Kay, Pink Truth provides information such as:
- Why more than 99% of people involved with multi-level marketing will lose money.
- Why so many people call Mary Kay and other multi-level marketing companies pyramid schemes.
- How Mary Kay consultants and directors use scripts to recruit team members. (Were you told about the “6 things we look for“? Did your recruiter have an answer for every possible objection you came up with?)
- Why you’re going to be encouraged to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on an inventory package, because you supposedly can’t sell from an empty wagon.
- The real reason inventory purchases are pushed so hard is because the sales director gets paid a commission when the consultant places a product order (and it doesn’t matter if that consultant ever sells that inventory).
- The techniques used by Mary Kay sales directors to get women to continue purchasing more and more inventory.
- How you’re going to be encouraged to move up fast, and how you won’t be able to move up unless you’re willing to spend thousands of dollars of your own money purchasing more products.
- Why even if you move up fast, you are almost guaranteed to crash and burn.
- Why it’s nearly impossible to make a consistent income (no matter how small or large) just selling the overpriced products.
- The data that proves that almost no one is making money from actually selling Mary Kay products to customers.
- How little money most of the Pink Cadillac drivers (the ones who are the image of success in MK) make.
- How even at the top of the Mary Kay pyramid, not a whole lot of money is being made.
- How Mary Kay churns and burns recruits… adding 30,000 to 40,000 new consultants in the United States each month, while the same number of consultants are quitting each month.
- The process for sending your inventory back to Mary Kay and getting as big a refund as possible.
Thank you for visiting Pink Truth, and for being willing to learn a little more about the pink predator called Mary Kay. We hope you will stick around and read more, and share what you’ve found with your friends and family who may be considering Mary Kay.
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Comments (6)
onelessSD
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A fabulous article! Very articulate and precise… giving the facts (and backing them up).. in an upbeat, positive way.
Thank you Tracy! If I haven’t told you lately… I think you’re brilliant!
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Deflated Pink Bubble
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That was beautifully written and a perfect explanation of Pink Truth!
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linda
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ya..i thought so. i have seen to many bright, intelligent, motivated women try this and not succeed, leaving them frustrated and disappointed. NO THANKS!
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LEWISBR
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I always remember that Pink Truth was the only source of information I had as to Mary Kay. I mean, it was not possible to find out something real about Mary Kay, because its directors show only the same side of it: a successful company that helps women and their families to achieve success. Ok. But I didn’t knew success rates. Didn’t knew why were the products overpriced. Didn’t knew why my Director was soooo excited about my entering the company nor why she asked me to start with a huge inventory purchase… well, I’m out of it and am very happy.
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LEWISBR
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sorry for the grammar errors… English is not my mother language
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Once A Fool
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What I learned by observation is that many who appear to be very successful have very successful spouses who are likely subsidizing the “look.” Thank you for a forum filled with information and the truth to help those who read early an opportunity to miss making the mistakes so many of us have before them.
Real people do not make money on the backs of others through deceit and trickery. I personally witnessed the shunning of consultants who questioned the process and who did not drink the kool-aid. Those events were a catalyst in making the decision to leave MK in the dust and regain my own personal integrity.
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