I enjoy tracking the number of consultants victims who attend Mary Kay’s “seminar” in Dallas each year.  The attendance sounds impressive, but remember that only about 5% of consultants attend. Which means that 95% of consultants wisely stay home! (And Read more…

Every year, Gloria Mayfield Banks participates in one of the most predatory scams against women, Mary Kay Cosmetics. Every year, she makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from “selling a dream”…. via which more than 99% of women will actually Read more…

Again, changes in the arena make it difficult to compare the director debuts from year to year. See earlier years below.

Here is a photo of the new directors debuting at the Ruby Seminar. Mary Kay Inc. very cleverly changed the configuration of the arena so that we can’t really tell how this compares to previous years. Below are Ruby seminar Read more…

Again we have another user-submitted photo of the director debuts at Mary Kay seminar. The last year Mary Kay published these pictures publicly was 2009. We now add 2012 to our picture collection. This is a different angle, which makes Read more…

It has been a few years since we had a picture of the new sales directors at Pearl seminar. Mary Kay stopped publishing these pictures in 2010, as they clearly documented the dwindling numbers in the United States. The angle Read more…

Despite Mary Kay Inc.’s representations to the press that the company is flying high and benefiting from a tough economy, attendance at the annual Seminar in Dallas is still lagging behind the attendance in most of the last ten years. Read more…

Mary Kay brags that they recruited 165,000 new consultants in April 2011, and that March 2011 was the month with highest sales ever in the history of Mary Kay. But how engaged are all these orderers? If seminar attendance is Read more…