Maybe I’m a Kaybot
Maybe you think I am one of the Kaybots. And that’s fine. And maybe I shouldn’t even take the time to respond. But I feel I should.
I became a consultant in May. I know what you’re thinking, oh you poor dear, you don’t know what you are in for. Well, I do. See, I did do my research. And I found this site, and I read everything, and I see one overarching theme. Bitterness. Now, I am of course not saying that y’all’s experiences aren’t real. Of course I believe you had those experiences, because that is what you are saying, and I would like to believe that people are honest in sharing their experiences. So let me share mine.
Mary Kay changed my life. And I don’t mean becoming a consultant. I have been a customer for over 7 years. My skin has never looked better. And yes, I have tried other products, and no, I don’t think that Mary Kay is overpriced. My makeup and skincare lasts me twice as long and has the same quality. But what do I know right? I know that I have never felt more beautiful.
When I joined, I was not pressured to buy inventory. My director told me it was totally up to me. But I decided to go for it. And I haven’t placed a $600 order since then, because I haven’t quite gotten the sales. And my director told me NOT to buy more product than money I had. Funny huh? Because how in the heck are you going to make money if you keep spending more than you have made? Interesting.
My director is one of the most honest hard working people I know, and she is an incredible woman. I have never ONCE in my entire time being involved with Mary Kay, felt pressured in to doing or buying or participating in something I did not want to do.
So I am sorry to all of you for your bad experiences. And I hope ragging on Mary Kay helps you feel better. But, in my heart, and saying this from my heart, Mary Kay Ash was a wonderful woman who started an amazing company that helps women look and feel beautiful. And just like no one can take away your bad experiences with Mary Kay, you can’t take away people’s good experiences either. #mymklife #mypinktruth
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“And I haven’t placed a $600 order since then, because I haven’t quite gotten the sales.
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“I have never ONCE in my entire time being involved with Mary Kay, felt pressured in to (sic) doing or buying or participating in something I did not want to do.”
But you certainly have placed a $225 order quarterly to qualify for the 50% discount. So this is something you “want” to do? Your director is loving you!
I wonder how long she’s been a consultomer. If she’s still in the love-bombed honeymoon stage she’s in for a rude awakening once she realizes the minimum quarterly orders. And when her director NEEDS to make production lest she lose her title, that’s when she’s going to put the squeeze on. Plus June is coming 😱😰😵💫😵💸
She says she has been a consultant since May. By now she should know about the purchasing quota, and she has been through a Seminar scramble (she probably signed up as part of the qualification frenzy). Now she will get to experience the desperate squeeze from a slightly different perspective.
That’s what I get for reading before coffee 😉
Her phrasing makes it seem like her initial order was $600. And in the 11 months since May she hasn’t sold enough to order another $600??
“Maybe a Kaybot,” you still have time to box up your product and get 90% back from the company. It will be WAY more than you’ve made in product sales.
I know I’m an old skeptic, but I can’t help but feel that this was written by a director making up a bunch of crap…I just find it interesting that so far the PTCs aren’t addressing the My Shop elephant in the room and it’s been 3 months now!
Mary Kay changed my life. And I don’t mean becoming a consultant. I have been a customer for over 7 years – how were you a customer that long and not baited to join?
My skin has never looked better. And yes, I have tried other products, and no, I don’t think that Mary Kay is overpriced. My makeup and skincare lasts me twice as long and has the same quality. But what do I know right? I know that I have never felt more beautiful – she really got in your head and validated you.
When I joined, I was not pressured to buy inventory. My director told me it was totally up to me. But I decided to go for it – she preyed on a very easy mark who did everything “suggested” to them.
And I haven’t placed a $600 order since then, because I haven’t quite gotten the sales – so are you a PUC who buys a “store” worth of inventory?
And my director told me NOT to buy more product than money I had – that wasn’t a problem because she magically made more money appear with an MK credit card.
Mary Kay Ash was a wonderful woman who started an amazing company that helps women look and feel beautiful – you knew her, personally, or just heard your director’s beautiful stories and ate them up.
SERIOUSLY, if anyone is reading this, look how insidious it is. PTC has been completely taken and yet thinks she’s completely on top of it. Don’t be the next victim.
“Mary Kay Ash was a wonderful woman who started an amazing company that helps women look and feel beautiful.”
No, she wasn’t. She was a greedy woman who founded a company that would make her lots and lots of money by exploiting women and making sure that they money they spent flowed upward to her. She landed on cosmetics and skincare because she had to have a product to make it look legit. She lied about her life to make herself look like more than she was and was a hypocrite to boot. And the part that pisses me off, as a working class, honest, and salty person is that she succeeded >:(
Her acolytes these days are overstyled, overly made up, and tacky. I don’t know if they really believe that they look good got up like that but… most people don’t. It’s hardly appealing to the average Jane on the street.
Me too!!!! I’m fascinated by photos of Jeanne Martin with the spikey hair-don’t, or Kirstin Sharpe with that silly open mouth smile and wonder how they even believe that is a great look.
Jeanne just looks like a wackdoo old chick.
Maybe you think I am one of the Kaybots. And that’s fine. And maybe I shouldn’t even take the time to respond. But I feel I should.
NO, you shouldn’t have since you are only going to regurgitate the same old talking points we’ve covered time and again.
I became a consultant in May. I know what you’re thinking, oh you poor dear, you don’t know what you are in for.
Yeah, we’ve seen it time and again.
Well, I do. See, I did do my research.
Not very well if you still joined Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Louis Miller Hallenbeck Ash’s company.
And I found this site, and I read everything, and I see one overarching theme.
Get your Bingo cards ready, ladies and gentlemen.
Bitterness.
Yup, I know this word should really be the free square but..
Now, I am of course not saying that y’all’s experiences aren’t real.
Very magnanimous of you!
Of course I believe you had those experiences, because that is what you are saying, and I would like to believe that people are honest in sharing their experiences.
You DO realise that very few of the stories here are our “I-Stories” and most is screen shots from directors groups or their social media. The call is coming from inside Mary Kay.
So let me share mine.
Sighs.
Mary Kay changed my life. And I don’t mean becoming a consultant. I have been a customer for over 7 years. My skin has never looked better. And yes, I have tried other products, and no, I don’t think that Mary Kay is overpriced. My makeup and skincare lasts me twice as long and has the same quality. But what do I know right? I know that I have never felt more beautiful.
These are all matters of opinion. Some are demonstrationally false.
When I joined, I was not pressured to buy inventory. My director told me it was totally up to me. But I decided to go for it.
Well, they haven’t spent sixty years refining their scripts to make it seem like it’s your own decision.
And I haven’t placed a $600 order since then,
If you joined in May, then you needed to make at least one $225 order per quarter to keep your 50% discount. Since I don’t know when Tracy received this email, you have possibly ordered up to $675 in product. But you have certainly ordered more products. Nice logic twisting by the way!
because I haven’t quite gotten the sales.
Then why are you wasting time on this non IPA? Why aren’t you out shopping with your badge upside-down? Or
beggingasking hair salons if you can put a box in their store? Or joining the PTA in order to harvest the names of all the other mothers in order to offer them this opportunity?And my director told me NOT to buy more product than money I had. Funny huh? Because how in the heck are you going to make money if you keep spending more than you have made? Interesting.
The eternal question in MLMs, How To Make Money? When you find the answer, please let us know because even Mary Kay’s own figures show you that you have less than a one in 249 chance of reaching the breakeven point, let alone start clawing back all your expenses.
https://www.pinktruth.com/2026/03/02/pathetic-income-for-sales-directors-in-2025/
“Mary Kay Ash was a wonderful woman who started an amazing company that helps women look and feel beautiful.” NO … she was a liar and a manipulator.
LIES: She lied about her marriages, leaving out the inconvenient truths. She never mentioned details that might have interfered with her carefully crafted public image as the plucky divorced single mother of three from the wrong side of the tracks who founded a cosmetics company to give women like her a chance. Somewhere, somehow, she managed to lose track of several of her five (or seven) husbands.
Mary Kay Ash had seven husbands? Yes, it appears that Mary Kay Ash had seven of them, not the three that are usually acknowledged in her various biographies.
https://lazygardens.blogspot.com/2015/04/mary-kay-ash-and-missing-marriages.html
MANIPULATOR:
https://www.pinktruth.com/2020/01/06/the-miracle-of-mary-kays-10-class-week/
Read, in her own words, how she pressured her own employees into making her look good.
And the wonderful income you can earn:
https://lazygardens.blogspot.com/2015/09/mary-kay-home-business-opportunity-or.html
This article is a decade old, but nothing has changed. If anything, the picture is worse today, because Mary Kay sales are dropping and inflation is ballooning.
My director is one of the most honest
If she’s a director in Mary Kay, we can scratch “Honest” off her list of qualities!
hard working people I know, and she is an incredible woman.
Hustling is very different from “hard working”.
I have never ONCE in my entire time being involved with Mary Kay, felt pressured in to doing or buying or participating in something I did not want to do.
Since I don’t know when exactly you sent this email, you must have been through the End of Seminar Year madness with dialing for dollars, stretching for the Unit’s Career Car maybe even being asked to recruit and move into DIQ.
So I am sorry to all of you for your bad experiences.
I can feel the insincerity dripping off that statement.🙄
And I hope ragging on Mary Kay helps you feel better.
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But, in my heart, and saying this from my heart, Mary Kay Ash was a wonderful woman who started an amazing company that helps women look and feel beautiful.
Mary Kay Multitudinous Married Names was a rapacious women who created a company for her benefit, just like all other company founders. She spawned at least one spoiled entitled son and grandson if the lawsuits are to be believed.
And just like no one can take away your bad experiences with Mary Kay, you can’t take away people’s good experiences either. #mymklife #mypinktruth
If you HAD actually read some of the “I-Stories” you would have read that many women their positive experiences while part of this organisation. Sooner or later, you will discover that the bad experiences far outweigh the good ones and you will have to decide what to do. When you do, we will be here to help.
“Bitterness”
Yes, that’s what happens when you deliberately cause harm to others, they become bitter toward you.
“And I haven’t placed a $600 order since then, because I haven’t quite gotten the sales.”
Because she is her best customer. If this person is even a real consultant and not a director pretending to be a consultant she obviously joined for a discount, not to start a “business”. Yet Mary Kay cosmetics changed her life.
We’ll save a seat for you here, hun, when your eyes open.
And we won’t hold a grudge, either.