Written by SuzyQ Dear Mary Kay Cosmetics, I have been writing things for Pink Truth for more than a decade. The things I criticized in the beginning are unchanged. I know you have someone at the corporate offices who is tasked with monitoring this site. I know the executives know …
Below is a little piece entitled “Maybe She Needs Me.” Here’s big news: No one needs Mary Kay. They don’t need a consultant’s fake (warm chattering) compliment. They don’t need Mary Kay’s average (or below) products… they’ve got Walgreen’s. They don’t need the “sisterhood” of Mary Kay, in which your …
Written by Raisinberry Many years back, I stepped through the doors of my first Mary Kay event, completely uncomfortable by what I saw. I thought it was me, since they appeared to be so close and having so much fun. I must have had “issues.” They were so happy and …
Written by The Scribbler When your sales director or NSD “believe” (or in Mary Kay-speak, “bee-lieve”) in you, it is easier to get you to order products you don’t need. The “business” of MK is based heavily on emotional manipulation. If you believe in yourself, you’re going to order products …
Mary Kay is a bunch of mean girls. They often talk about the “big girls club” (directors and above), and once you get there, they have even more little groups based on number of offspring or unit production. Last year a group of young sales directors were together wore these …
One morning, I heard this statement on a television talk show: “One obstacle to recovery is hope.” They went on to discuss how hope plays a part in people recovering from tragedies or moving forward in their lives. In the real world, hope is often helpful in the recovery process. …
Written by Raisinberry When I first came here I did not understand that it was the MLM system that was the destructive, predatory model. I was still brainwashed into the belief that those who “failed” at Mary Kay just didn’t apply themselves. If a person just does more, they get …
Written by SuzyQ Okay, so here’s the thing… So many people ask the question… how do women get sucked into MK and why do they stay? Easy. Most of us do not get the recognition we crave in our everyday lives. No one applauds when we clean out the fridge, …
Written by Lazy Gardens There are four phases to a gambling addiction. It struck me that Mary Kay (or participation in any MLM, for that matter), is an awful lot like a gambling addiction. See if you agree when you read about these four phases. Winning Phase Short or non-existent …
Mary Kay unit meetings are the weekly chance to indoctrinate you with the Mary Kay Way. The way they keep you in is by constantly reinforcing the manipulation. If you step away, you start to get clarity about what a losing proposition MLM is. If you keep coming back to …
