Category: Cults and MLM
An Experience in the Mary Kay Cult
Written by Cindylu Thank you for creating this site and telling it like it is. This outdated, materialistic and phony MLM system has been broken for decades and gotten away with it because of a good sounding fairy tale and a good PR and corporate operation that avoids realizing what …
Hitch Your Wagon to a Mary Kay Star
Written by Raisinberry I hitched my wagon to a star, showed up to go up, prayed to widen my territory and be kept from evil, polished up my attitude by cancel, cancel, canceling my negative thoughts and I still landed in a crap heap with double digit interest rates! God …
Peer Pressure and Guilt in Mary Kay
Written by Marcy After my stint in Mary Kay and two other MLMs, I have come to the conclusion that many people stay because of two factors: peer pressure and guilt. We come into this new “business opportunity” all excited about a new venture with limitless possibilities. This new endeavor …
Every Seminar is the Right Place and the Right Time
Written by ProblemPink Every year at seminar, executives from Mary Kay proclaim that THIS is the right place and the right time. Every year. And each time, we believed it. Every. Single. Year. The company has never been doing better. We are on the cutting edge. After X years in …
Seven Phases of Mary Kay Denial
Written by Raisinberry You have landed here, on Pink Truth. You’ve read a bit and you are outraged. You are a Mary Kay consultant at any level on the career path, and you want to straighten us out. You want us to stop being so negative, and possibly influencing your …
How Can I Help My Friend See the Truth About Mary Kay?
A concerned friend of a Mary Kay consultant requests advice from the Pink Truth community: A former close friend of mine is a relatively new MK clone. This was after having tried other MLM schemes that crashed and burned. I found Pink Truth while looking for answers about the addictive quality …
You Get Into Mary Kay and Mary Kay Gets Into You (Part Two)
Written by SuzyQ I got out of Mary Kay, so why do I still feel bad? As directors, even if we weren’t wildly successful, we still were Mary Kay in our minds. We made it to the TOP 2% of the company and we had everything together. In part one, …
You Get Into Mary Kay and Mary Kay Gets Into You (Part One)
Written by SuzyQ Have you heard the saying that you get into Mary Kay and Mary Kay gets into you? It describes how immersed women get in th Mary Kay culture. It’s meant to be a fun phrase to throw around, but it just shows how hard-core women become about …
Mary Kay Works When You Do!
Written by SuzyQ What a myth! If Mary Kay worked when many of us did, we wouldn’t be here, would we? We are not the lazy “loosers” those in the pink fog make us out to be. In fact, it wasn’t all that long ago we were sugar sharp and …