The Ugly Mary Kay Purse
Written by Parsons Green
Mary Kay recently offered a fabulous prize to consultants for their inventory orders. If they ordered $600 each month between January and June, they would earn this fabulous purse and a stage walk at seminar complete with a SASH. If you only had four or five months, you’d still receive standing recognition from your chair!
Mary Kay has changed the prize program several times over the years. One recent program gave consultants a monthly gift for a $600 wholesale order. If a consultant received each monthly gift for the year, they’d also get a year-end gift.
Katrina Lyons has been booked and busy pampering and pouring into women and had a question about the monthly love gifts. When Rachel Jackson showed her a pic of the bag, Katrina and Kathi Bogan did not hold back!
Karen Blake does not have enough business to earn this prize. 
Elizabeth Hulsbrink does not like this discussion. Everything she does in Mary Kay is rewarding. She is grateful for any type of gift from the company.
Trish Morrow-Porter wonders if Katrina would criticize this bag to Mary Kay’s face? (Well… YES. I would!)
Marlene Harvey thinks if you don’t like the gifts, get out of the business!
Sarah Raddatz earns better prizes at her other direct selling company.
Sure, prizes are fun. MK directors always mention that they’re just the “extra” for doing the work you were already going to do. But would this bag motivate you to join Mary Kay?
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Puffy/quilted bags are trendy now but they’re not timeless pieces. Gold? Did they have to pick an ugly color for that style? Can you imagine paying $3600 for that thing?
You can get a nicer looking puffy bag in your choice of a variety of colors at Temu, Five Below, or Walmart for $7-$10.
“If they ordered $600 each month between January and June, they would earn this fabulous purse and a stage walk at seminar complete with a SASH.”
All that for only $3600!
I could spray paint big bubblewrap and get the same thing. it’s FUGLY!
I call it the tumor bag.
It reminds me a bit of those popcorn/bubble tops that were briefly popular in the 00s. They were made of puckered fabric that would stretch to fit anyone but were skintight when worn, so they clung to everything one didn’t want them to cling to, and hot because the puckers trapped air pockets against your skin. Some looks should stay out.
I was thinking Ferrero Rocher wrappers.
That was my thought, too, DA!!
Cynthia Y Lewis, bless her heart (is that how the southerners say it?), thinks it’s a designer bag. Looking around, Prada, LV, Chanel, and a few other aspirational brands do sell quilted bags but they don’t look anything like that gold lamé thing pictured and MK did not spend $2500+ for a prize bag.
Elizabeth is deep in the Fog. As a teacher complaining about having to pay for inservice training and childcare- HELLO? Is she forgetting how MK pays for NOTHING? Seminar, Leadership, Career Conference, weekly meetings and certainly not childcare.
Ordering $3600 of inventory that will never be sold in order to pay several thousand to attend Seminar and receive this tacky $5 bag is ludicrous.
I would not want my kid in her class.
This whole thread is hilarious. First the comments that it’s an ugly bag (true). Second, someone saying her reward is making women feel better about themselves & all the money she earns from Mary Kay. Hahahaha. Buying $600/ month Is at MOST $240 in profit/ month. And you’re very unlikely to actually earn all of that. And the defending Mary Kay’s honor: Would you say this to MK’s face if she were alive ?”
I can’t….This is too ridiculous.
Re: the snark about saying to Mary Kay’s face that the bag is ugly, perhaps a better question is whether Mary Kay herself would ever have carried such a bag. My guess is HARD NO.
I definitely would say it to Mary Kay’s face and I’d tell that lying old bat other things to her face too.
[splorf] You owe me a new keyboard, BP!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I would say so many things to Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Louis Miller Hallenbeck Ash.
“I am truly curious – what gifts or motivation do you get from your ‘other’ jobs?”
A steady paycheck every week, for one. Plus insurance, 401K, sick time, PTO, etc. I’ll take that over a fugly bag and a sash any day.
We get $1200 for our Lifestyle Spending Account. And they give us money each year to contribute to the nonprofits of our choice for North Texas Giving Day. Oh and they just launch a employer assisted housing benefit where you get a one time $10000 toward buying a home (closing costs or toward the down payment, etc), plus time off for closing with taking PTO.
Hey, your profile picture is visible in one of these screenshots!
Oh my gosh! Thank you! Tracy has fixed for me and that pic is GONE from that profile 🙂
“Lazarus ate the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table as dogs licked his sores…AND HE LIKED IT!!! Do you think he ever said to that rich man, ‘hey, I don’t like grape seeds! Can you chuck some lamb gristle down here once in a while?’ NoooOOOooo! Because the last rich man didn’t even drop any crumbs!”
Wine and grind? They have a stripper pole at meetings? Do they throw those bee pins instead of dollar bills?
Oh my gosh, I was coming here to comment on that! “Some of you wine and grind” – those girls sound fun! 😂
Elizabeth Hulsbrink “appreciates the thought behind offering any type of incentives.” Aww, lol, that’s adorable.
Just for fun, allow me to illustrate the “thought” behind these [*cough*] “incentives.” Picture it: a sprawling conference room, MK corporate, Addison, TX. MKC overlords are seated around a long table discussing ways to keep the company afloat until the official transition to affiliate. “…[yawn] Okay, what is the absolute cheapest possible carrot we can dangle for them to chase that’ll boost ordering?” Crickets. “Anyone?” After a moment, a lone hand is meekly raised. “Ummm…I think puffy purses have been making a comeback…maybe we could have MK branding slapped on some knockoffs for a coupla bucks a pop…?” “Done.”
The puffy bag trend will be gone (again) in no time. In keeping with the MK standard, their version is not only late to the party, it’s an actual eyesore and LOOKS cheap. It’s not a “free gift,” MK is essentially selling it for $3600 (?!?!) and these Kaybots are not only eating it up with a spoon, they’re gushing with gratitude at how lucky they are to “work for” such a “generous” and “thoughtful” company! If $3600 is a little out of your price range, don’t worry: MK sees you too! They’re also offering the opportunity to have others clap for you OR have others clap for you while you wear a $0.10 sign across your body for the low, low prices of $2400 or $3000, respectively. I cannot wrap my brain around that “logic.”
Corporate’s attempt to “CYA” by way of the itty bitty, teeny tiny, squint-and-you’ll-see-it disclaimer at the bottom about orders needing to reflect actual sales to legit consumers…now, that’s just comedy. The only thing missing from it is a winking emoji.
I’m a little surprised they’re not pairing this ugly ass bag with the ridiculous jean jacket in the promo.
According to that chat, they used to have a prize (or “prize”) each month if you sold (bought) $600 wholesale for that month? But now it’s only one prize after six months of “selling” $600 each month.
So the consultants went from possibly getting six $3.97 Temu trinkets down to one Temu trinket in a six month span.
They must really be hard up at MK Corporate if they can’t afford cheap gumball machine prizes each month. But then the family lawsuit does say Mary Kay hasn’t paid a dividend to the Rogers family since 2022.
De-Lulu consultants! “Free’ gifts–don’t think so . How much ya spending to get that ‘free’ gift.
And Hun, you have a teachers pension when you retire.
Take off the pink colored glasses and get with the real world with real numbers (and show us your P&L).
It makes the purple plastic Younique bag/presenter kit look like YSL. Congrats MK for scraping the barrel with this abomination. You owe me new eyes.