A Mary Kay Facial at Starbucks
Written by Parsons Green
Chrissie White is nervous. She’s doing her first facial in months and her customer wants to do it at a Starbucks. Sharon Adamson helpfully demonstrates what she would do. Lots of products and steps. Chrissie’s customer will be dazzled.
Amine Fiske wonders why she’s doing it at a Starbucks. Chrissie says that’s what her customer wants. Debra Collins adds that skin care parties are done at restaurants all the time.
Pat Arnold has held a skin care party at McDonalds. Consultants need to be able to meet customers where they feel comfortable.
Lorena Burdiek has used Starbucks before. Sit away from the main area but close to the bathroom so you can have access to the sinks.
Ronette Gravitt loves Panera Bread. She also holds training sessions and team building events there too! She’s even gone live on Facebook. Most businesses don’t mind, and they are always buying food and drinks.
Alicia Kramer recommends using a booth where the customer is facing in. It will give the customer a more private experience. Don’t mind that it’s in public. No one is paying attention to you. Anything relating to the face, have the customer apply in the bathroom. End the session with the dash out the door look. Bonnie Woerpel-White says wipes are a must. If you don’t have a wipe, bring a wash rag and you can wet it in the bathroom.
Chrissie updated the group that she held the facial! The Starbucks was empty so the guest felt comfortable. She loves the product. Please make sure you’re listening to your guest about their safe space. Do not make assumptions. She felt magical because she made her guest feel special.
Mary Kay is allegedly the #1 Best Selling Skin Care and Makeup Brand in the world. With dedicated consultants who will meet you anywhere and everywhere to let you try the product, it’s not hard to see why.
I just wonder if Chrissie ordered a grande drink and asked for it in a venti cup?
How do you all feel about women using these restaurants to conduct their business? We know people have business meetings at restaurants all the time. But this seems different. This seems like the kind of gathering where you would rent a room from a restaurant, not just freeload and take up space for paying customers. Do you think restaurants should crack down on this, or is this normal behavior that shouldn’t bother anyone?
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How gauche.
The potential customer wanted a place where she wouldn’t feel trapped. Where she’d have control. I knew real estate agents were taking precautions ( conceal carry or 3rd party present). Never thought about the home party circuit. Why stress over if your house is clean enough? Why worry about others wandering around your home? This makes sense to me. The whole MLM thing does not
Well, as a defensive maneuver it makes sense. But it’s still gross to be trying out the whole beauty routine in a place where people are trying to eat.
Very tacky! Unprofessional. Doesn’t say how much she sold so Im thinking a big fat round zero! Then went into the hole for gas, time a customer Starbucks order. I’m thinking customer only wanted a free Starbucks !
I think you’re right about the free Starbucks!
Yep. “Man, Chrissie has been bugging me for months about giving me a free facial. I don’t want to do it and I don’t want to buy anything, but I have to work with her so I can’t risk making her angry by telling her to pound sand. I don’t want her at my house because there’s no way to get rid of her without Drama. I don’t want to go to HER house because there’s no easy escape. I know! If we meet at Starbucks she won’t dare make a scene with other people around, and they won’t want her hogging a table all afternoon. I can duck out if I need to, and at least I’ll get a free coffee out of it!”
Based on my experience with Mary Kay, I would eat my hat if the consultant actually bought her customer’s coffee.The customer may have expected it/ hoped for it but I bet the consultant didn’t buy for her.
I had plenty of business meetings at restaurants … NONE of them involved applying products and making a mess.
And I thought handing out roses in a restaurant bathroom was bad. This is way over the top inappropriate for a “professional” beauty consultant.
Because, when you meet in a public place, they can arrange for a family member/coworker/friend to call/text about the very urgent emergency at home/work so of course they have to run for the… I mean, cut the “facial” short. So sorry, gotta run, maybe next time, I’ll call you.
These people have zero dignity and have lost sight of being professional and not looking desperately tacky.
Having products out and being put on and washed off in a space where food is served seems unsanitary. I wouldn’t allow it in my cafe if I had one.
It’s definitely tacky, like clipping your toenails at the restaurant table level of tacky. But, based on the trashy clown clothes NSDs Kimberley Copeland and Missy ONeal are wearing while making pests of themselves in London, tacky (and gross) can be expected from Mary Kay.
“And as you can see, just a dab of the VoluWise Goomolient Serum with genuine highlyconic acid and vital collegebinge pepsitides just erases fine lines and…”
“Why the hell are you smearing ketchup all over my hand?”
“No wonder my burger tasted lousy!”
Any ideas on how it works if theres a code on the Starbucks bathroom door & the Starbucks employee is anti MLMer and changes the code in between all the hand washing the prospective “customer” has to do….. just curious…
” Do a hand facial” makes me giggle.
We’re just talking about hand cream right? on your hands like Lubriderm?
There’s a whole 3-step process. Hahaha. Put on a really rich emoilent cream, wash with a scrub to exfoliate, THEN the hand cream.
Owner of a fast casual restaurant and NO I would not want people grooming in my store. That’s disgusting.
She never states if the customer actually bought anything though. She loved everything about the product and learning about it, but my guess is that she didn’t buy the product.
Yeah, I’d have led with that.
100%. I’d say not even a pity purchase of a lipstick. MK sales are so rare to the public that every one of them is celebrated with dollar amounts and the product bought. Even a pity purchase is noted and celebrated as it’s a rare event, a sale to the public, a once in a blue moon thing. The lack of $ and product(s) sold in the post indicates it was a bust.
So no money made for however long it took, gas to get there and back, and being generous here buying the prospect coffee. But I doubt that happened, the prospect will have had to buy her own drink as MK IBCs can’t really afford to buy random people coffee. From all the meetup stories I’ve read (both from inside MK and from prospects) it’s something that happens rarely.
So basically probably 6 hours warm stalking to get prospect, 2 hours total on the phone confirming and reconfirming and playing phone tag, say 30 minutes drive there, 30 minutes back, 1 hour at Sbux. So that’s about 10 hours for no reward.
This is a sure-fire way to get you banned from Starbucks and other restaurants/stores. The Panera not far from me now has a “No Soliciting” sign out front, and wording includes handing out flyers or brochures.
I was so deep in the fog that I actually held two “facials” in a Panera party room. I still cringe thinking about it. I knew in my gut it was weird but my director at that time encouraged it and told me it was only weird if I let it be weird and said that to myself in my head.
I remember getting a lead from a facial box and not telling the woman it was going to be at a Panera. I assume she never actually looked up the address I shared and she never asked for the name of the building. But when she arrived in the parking lot she called and was confused and I told her we’ll be in the Panera and they let me use a private space in their building. It was really the free community room that anyone could reserve. It had glass all around it and I just put us in a corner where we weren’t as noticeable. She was sweet enough to stay through the session but I could tell she was so disappointed it wasn’t a traditional facial like it she had expected it to be.
I feel terrible and ashamed now to have been that desperate to get a face to facial. I bought into the scam for sure and so embarrassed every time I reflect on how I actually believed and acted on the advice they were giving.
You’re in the right place now. The shame feeling is normal. We were all trained to do this crap. And we were trained to think it was “normal” and “acceptable” to behave this way. Then we spent lots of time with other people who behaved the same way, and drown ourselves in “training” all so we could feel more comfortable with it. You were just being a good student. So was I. It grosses me out as well how much of this garbage I did, and how much time and money I spent on this fake “business.” Keep coming to Pink Truth and reprogramming your brain. You’re accepted here! You’re out of the sick pink fog.
Former manager of a sbux and coffee shop….no one cares if you do a facial there. I have seen plenty doing makeup at sbux, a thousand times.
Fair enough, people put on makeup at the tables. But going to a restaurant for the express purpose of putting on and taking off makeup is bonkers.
Splashing water about your face and taking off make up is WRONG. Hopefully some SB patrons would give these creatures dirty looks.
McDonald’s huh?
I certainly haven’t been to every McD’s but the ones near me (3) have either rebuilt entirely or updated the interior. The one closest to me was built in the early 70s, has no drive thru. There used to be a fairly big lobby with tables, etc. The new one has a lot less seating and maybe 3 tables – most of the space seems to be dedicated to the kitchen and so on. Most customers are standing around waiting for their online order number to be called and messing around on their phones.
I can’t even imagine some MK person having a skin care demo there.
During the shutdowns, a bunch of fast food places around here (and presumably everywhere) did major remodels. The dining rooms are a fraction of the size they were and they added a second drive-through lane to most. Even now, takeout and drive-through make up the vast majority of the business.
I can’t imagine doing a makeup demo in one of those nearly empty dining rooms that smell like grease, with the fryers beeping nonstop and a whole parade of takeout orderers shuffling past staring at you like WTF.
On one hand the victim can easily escape when a family emergency conveniently crops up, the hun is less likely to pitch a fit but on ‘tother the endless beeps and the smell of burgers, oil and grease is NOT what I want to hear and smell during what is supposed to be a pampering “me time” as it’s advertised (of course we know what an MK facial entails but the victim doesn’t necessarily). And the endless stream of Ubereats drivers.
Having said that an MK facial at Mickey D’s isn’t the worst I’ve seen and heard. A friend of mine for his sins worked there for 6 months. It was his job as a cleaner to deal with the worst the public can do. Hazmat suit needed for the toilets, found more than his fair share of used diapers here and there under and even ON TABLES just left there, clogged toilets because someone had Taco Bell and put an entire roll of TP down it. Believe me an MK facial even with pressure selling to buy and join MK is far better than that hot mess he had to deal with at times. Although he did get just over minimum wage, but IDK if it made up for the awful things he had to deal with. The public are an inconsiderate lot at the best of times.