Anyone in Mary Kay Can Get a Pink Cadillac
According to Mary Kay sales director Emily Schuette, anyone could get a pink Cadillac if they were willing to do the work. She says: “Only 1% of consultants earn it, and that’s not because 99% can’t. It’s because it takes “heart work” — consistency when no one’s cheering…”
Isn’t that interesting? If you’re not in a Mary Kay car, you must not want it enough and must not be willing to do the work.
But is that really true? Of course not. The reason more women aren’t in MK cars is because MLM is an impossible system. It guarantees failure for almost everyone. Take a look at the career car stats that Mary Kay publishes:
Key statistics:
- 1% of consultants drive a MK car, and there are 3,600 cars on the road now
- 1.5% of consultants make it to director (it used to be 2%)
- 10% of directors get a Cadillac
Mary Kay stopped publishing the number of consultants in the U.S. years ago, because the dwindling numbers made them look bad. In 2006, the company had 700,000 consultants in the U.S. Based on the numbers disclosed above, they’re only at about 360,000 in 2025 and continuing to drop.
That’s a great statistic, but equally as interesting is the fact that the disclosed numbers show that about 1/3 of directors NEVER GET INTO A CAR. Can you imagine? Something Emily says is so easy if you’re just willing to put in the work. Presumably, if you get to the level of sales director, you’re willing to do a bunch of work. Yet not enough to go a little further and qualify for the car?
Of course not! It’s not because they’re not willing to work hard enough. It’s because the MLM system is rigged against them in a way that guarantees failure.
But if we went with Emily’s theory about women not being willing to put in the work…. Apparently Emily is lazy too. 21 years in MK and still not a national sales director. I guess she doesn’t have the consistency, discipline, or courage.
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And how many women in your unit, who spent spent spent and recruited like the Vietnam War draft to put your butt in that car, will get to drive it?
It’s just another example of how your sacrifice in MLM only benefits your upline. As much self-congradulatory alliterative spin as she tries to put on it, the only reason she has what she has is because she’s milking her cash cows for all they’re worth.
Imagine a real job, in which your sales manager pretends that if you sell more, the trip she gets to go on as an incentive “belongs to all of us.”
“If Stachia wouldn’t have hosted a party for new consultant Deb, this never would have happened.”
She was that close to not qualifying, and probably still threw some of her own money in. Oh to see the long term business ledger of these Cadillac drivers!
I know Emily personally. She really is a nice person and means the best for those she leads. She is smart and she works hard, consistently holding 3+ parties a week.
For the life of me, though, I can’t figure out how she does it. I did everything she does, and it didn’t work for me. For 20+ years! I promise. I DID EVERYTHING! The only thing I can think of is that those who live in small towns or seem to do better than those that live in a metropolis.
I think that small towns and specifically the mid-west has an easier time of getting people involved in facials/ parties and recruiting because those people have fewer things to do available to them. In a large city, there are so many more interesting things to keep you busy. I’d be interested to know if the largest percentage of consultants come from small, rural areas vs larger cities.
MK doesn’t ever talk about that and even when I’ve asked NSDs about that statistic, they look at me like I have 3 heads.
You can’t “mean the best” when you are actively selling a scam to people. She knows people are losing money, yet she recruits with promises of riches.
Oh, I know…. she tells herself that anyone who isn’t making money is to blame. They aren’t working hard enough. (Her post makes that belief clear.)
But I’m over the willful ignorance. She is perpetrating a scam, and telling herself it’s not… just doesn’t cut it for me anymore.
Tracy. This post reminds me of the Taylor Swift song “actually romantic”. I’m flattered that you seem to know so much about me. Keep on hating if you must. But please don’t post photos of my children to this website without my consent. I am their legal guardian and do not consent to have their pictures placed here. I am asking you to take those down. THAT is sleazier than anything.
Oh Emily. Thanks for following along. You post your children’s pictures publicly to help promote the scam you are a part of. The pictures are available far and wide because of YOUR actions. If privacy meant so much to you, you wouldn’t use your innocent children as pawns in your scam.
P.S. Talking about FACTS is not “hating.” To be sure, however, I hate the lies that you tell and I hate that women are scammed out of their hard earned money and they come out of MK emotionally damaged.
Emily, if your children’s privacy is so important to you, why do you share their pictures on a PUBLIC post?
Actually if you read the law, it IS legal for me to post them because I’m their legal guardian. It isn’t, however, legal for YOU to post them to THIS site. Keep this hater post up because damn the SEO good bad or otherwise is going to be amazing for me. But keep my kids out of it. Keep it up and expect a cease and desist letter from me. It seriously would take you 2 seconds to just crop that part off the screen shot-but then again that’s probably why you weren’t successful in a business like this since you can’t even take TWO seconds to have the human decency to take the photo of my kids down when asked.
LOL, Emily. I am not scared of your letter. It is meaningless and you don’t know the law. Again, if you don’t want your kids on the internet, don’t post them on the internet. I owe you nothing.
And do you really want to talk about my success? Because I have a real business. One in which I don’t scam people for a living, like you. I earn an honest living and I run circles around you when it comes to my income. But I don’t expect you to understand a real business.
We’re here for you when you decide to stop being a scammer and get a real career.
Nothing you post online is ever truly private, and it never truly disappears.
If you don’t want pictures of your kids showing up on the ‘net, do what a lot of parents do and DON’T POST PICS OF YOUR KIDS ONLINE. Or, restrict it to something like a private Facebook account where you have greater control over who might see them. And certainly don’t use them to shill for your scammy MLM.
Anyway, if you’re planning to send a C&D to Tracy, you’d need a name and address for her. If you had those, you could Google her and would find out on the first hit that she really does own a very real and successful business. Therefore all this “WUT BIZNEZZ NO U” is all just posturing.
Just stahp. This is getting embarrassing.
So, Emily, will each member of your unit, who are the ones who contributed the bulk of the “production” that earned it, get to drive the car for a day taking turns for as long as you have it, or is it only for you?
That’s a good question – does she also bill them for their share of her copay if she has one?
What business is it Tracy? I’d love to know all about it. Please share your businesses website otherwise it’s as real as Aaron Rodger’s wife. I will be taking more steps to get my children’s picture taken down. You seriously are not allowed to post pictures of other people’s children without consent-Have you actually looked into it? I am not sure why you think that’s ok? Some savior complex to get back at me for NOTHING I’ve ever done to you? Way to involve kids. I’m not asking to take this down, just crop out my kids.
I seriously am allowed to repost things that are made public on the internet and to make commentary on them.
You may want to rethink your tactics. If you want me to do you a favor, maybe don’t be a jerk to me and threaten me about laws you don’t understand.
As for my business, it’s no secret. It’s well known and you can figure it out on your own.
You’ve had your say. Time to find something better to do with your time than obsessively read Pink Truth.
What does Aaron Rodgers have to do with this?
Just gonna drop this in here in case Emily wants to read something.
https://imgur.com/a/mary-kay-canadian-income-disclosure-2024-hPNN90o
He married his wife Brittani this past summer, but she’s a very private person and stays way out of the public eye. Some tinfoil hats out there, like our fiend Emily, take this to mean that since she’s not hanging all over him and mugging for the camera a la Taylor Swift, she doesn’t exist.
I mean, the man has dated actresses and pro athletes and he’s freaking rich and handsome. HE DOESN’T NEED TO INVENT A WIFE. Quit slitting your throats with Occam’s Razor, people.
Silly me. I thought posting people’s faces all over the internet without their consent was what MK encouraged!
https://www.pinktruth.com/2025/10/01/lip-balms-for-nursing-home-residents/
I feel like this “really a nice person” is the most skilled of manipulators, to have such a reputation. She is knowingly scamming and fleecing women to enrich HERSELF. That car is NOT about stewardship, it is about Emily driving a car she’s driven so long the neighbors will wonder if she doesn’t have that pepto bismal pink car. None of that shows up for her TEAM. No one looks at a single member of her TEAM and says “Oh Marian’s BOSS [upline] DRIVES A PINK MK CADILLAC! WHAT A GREAT ????? TEAM MEMBER MARIAN MUST BE!”. That’s just patently absurd. There is no reflected glory for EMILY’S FINANCIAL ENABLERS.
Emily is a manipulative greedy career Gaslighter. 21 Years Isn’t An Accident.
I agree . The NSD I know is very well-liked by all, across other areas too. People praise her “humility and kindness” but I know her to be a masterful spin-doctor, manipulative, deceptive and sweet-talker. A skilled curator of image of success and affluence. She knows people’s soft spot and what buttons to press. She uses people and she is so good at it that those whom she used defend her.
She is a person trapped by Mary Kay and in order to pull herself out of the hole of debts, she ensnares and traps others.
This Emily person should not be proud of having the nth car and nth Cadillac. It’s a statement of how good a scammer she is.
She says: “Only 1% of consultants earn it, and that’s not because 99% can’t. It’s because it takes “heart work” — consistency when no one’s cheering…”
Does she tell this to her new consultomers upfront? No, because it undermines the whole “executive pay for part-time work” mythos they desperately try to promote.
I’m not working my azz off for someone else to drive a car. PERIOD.
Guess I”m not a team player–I’m a ME player. I reap the fruits of my labor- not my manager.
Imagine working for Corporate America and they had a policy like this. I need a vacation–new car–work overtime so I can get it. You can keep driving you 1980 Chevy Citation.
That is indeed something which zi cannot understand. Why are the consultants cheering for their director getting a car and NSD getting a car and being upgraded to a higher “status” car, enjoying a luxury trip, all of which are on their expenditure which they themselves can’t enjoy.
How effective is the brainwashing in MK that they can’t use their logic to see through the scam.
Gurl! You still don’t have company medical, dental or retirement! Enjoy your pink caddy memories in your old age because that’s all you will have…memories while living in a tent without any kind of car. Maybe a rusted bicycle 🚲. Then maybe you will realize how you messed over numerous other women by reading them to your retirement pit. Very sad.
Exactly. She may “work hard”…for what? A few free trips here and there, and the “prestige”of driving a pink car that she doesn’t own.
Maybe her husband has a great job and can support her Mary Kay hobby. Maybe income is not a problem for her family. Not everyone is that fortunate.
Look, here’s your post on Instagram too:
I wonder if Mary Kay Ash ever wore cheetah print.