Taylor’s Flop Era
Written by Parsons Green
Taylor McKnight has been in Mary Kay for eight years.
In December, she shared that her primary goal was earning the top director trip to Switzerland. It would be her first, and would require she and her team to have $650,000 retail based on $325,000 wholesale orders place with MK.
She posted in January that she was only 1 of 11 sales directors who currently had the status of “elite” in Mary Kay. How do you get this “elite” label? By having 8 or more offspring directors. (ONLY 11 in the WHOLE COMPANY!) This is the final rank you can achieve before you get the 20 directors needed to debut as a national sales director. (I’ll revisit this later.)
In February, Taylor posted that it is her dream to be a National Sales Director. Almost six years ago, she explained why this is important to her in a Facebook live that we discussed here. She’s still dreaming.
In 1975, Mary Kay herself challenged everyone in the sales force to try for a 10 show week. Taylor decided to try having this too. However, she never updated to let us know how many she was able to hold.
In May, Taylor told us that she and her team needed to finish the requalification process for her next Cadillac. She dyed her hair pink to show her commitment.
Taylor held her annual customer appreciation sale on June 12th. She would give one winner a PINK NINJA Cooler that sells for $199.00. I believe she bought this by using her star points or by redeeming those points for a Visa gift card.
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On June 18th, she mentioned the electric Cadillac would be the first in her area.
With 10 days left, she offered $100 cash or $200 in product to anyone that either took orders or held Facebook parties for her. The next day she also offered a $100 Visa Gift Card giveaway. You could enter the giveaway by watching a recruiting video.
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Then Taylor began sharing live Facebook updates. On June 24th, her update started they still had $25,700 left to finish.
On June 27th, she felt the need to film her son while DRIVING to ask if he wanted Mommy to earn another pink cadillac.I wish he had said no. By this update, she only needed $20,400.
In her Jun 28th update, she had just finished a party with two of her consultants and again filmed in the car. She at least was parked. Taylor was very confused and was not sure if she was live in her Wonderland Unit or on her personal page. She also shared her son fell off the couch and hit his head.They were able to get a telehealth appointment that showed he luckily had no signs of concussion. She still needed $18,600 to finish and hoped to cover $7700 of this by selling grab bags of product she still had. She begged her team to get her order updates ASAP so she would know how much she’d have to cover.
Former Cadillac Driver Darrian Walker had to mention on one of the videos that Jamie Taylor had congratulated Taylor for not crying in her last few videos – which of course, led to more tears.
At the end of the day on June 29th, they were still $13,600 away.
And wouldn’t you know – Taylor and her team found a way and made a way and finished on the last day of the month. It’s the kind of Mary Kay miracle that always happens at month and year and happens so much that can you even call it a miracle.
Taylor unfortunately only achieved the $400,000 unit club and will not be going to Switzerland. Next year’s trip is to Rome, and I don’t think she’ll be going on that either.
Taylor didn’t publicly share who won the $100 Visa card from the recruiting video contest, but did pick a winner for the Ninja Cooler. The winner had earned 42 out of 912 entries.
As a successful business owner, Taylor already has a clear strategy in mind for 2027. She will have her first million dollar year. Her secret weapon is her Porch Goose Milli. Taylor will reward her team with a goose and they can earn outfits from her as well. God is calling her to this, and to show her obedience, she pledges to see 360 faces in the upcoming year.
And I almost forgot. Remember how I mentioned Taylor was Jamie Taylor’s first “elite” sales director? And that she was one of only 11 in the company total? I have an update about that too….
Taylor is no longer an elite sales director. Here is what has been happening in her area.
One of Taylor’s offspring directors is Sabra Blevins. Sabra is a former Cadillac director just wants to finish requalification on her Equinox. At the beginning of June, she posted that they were $30,000 away from finishing. Sadly, she ended the month $3900 short. She could not find or make a way.
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Taylor has a Facebook Page for her futile future national area, and she uses her director lineup as the cover photo. The first lineup I could find was from November 2024. She had six first line directors, and one second line. She had one DIQ, Michelle Gore.
The next picture I had was from her June 2026 lineup. She had lost Jenna Scott, Melanie Stratton and Teresa Gibson. Michelle Gore also became a director by this update. Since Jenna Scott lost her directorship, Michelle and Ashton Dempsey moved up to first line.
It bears repeating: Taylor is no longer an “elite” sales director.
Shortly after June ended, I decided to check the cover photo again. Taylor had already removed the Equinox from Sabra’s picture. How petty is this? Michelle also lost her title but thankfully is back in DIQ along with Melanie Stratton!
I just wonder, how many porch geese Taylor has in her possession. I might sign up just to get one from her myself.
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PG, these exposés are fantastic and so important! Thank you for the time you spend digging this stuff up. The struggle is real inside the pink bubble, and newbies and prospects need this to see what is really behind all the hype.
Now if only we could see who puts the charges on their card for those miraculous finishes! Those folks must eventually regret that. This is exactly why these deep dives are so important. The ladies in these downlines need to see just how routine these ordering emergencies really are.
Thanks to the high churn in MK, the upline does not have to keep going back to the same well with the same “emergency” over and over. Those new faces come in handy! But articles like this should help steer newbies clear of this trap. Or at least allow them see that these ordering “emergencies” are inevitable, quite routine, help only the upline, and only help them temporarily.
Thank you PG!
Taylor was the one who rented clothes to wear to Career Conference. Not just formalwear; everyday stuff as well. That shows how much money she’s NOT making.
What an exhausting and horrible lifestyle- there is no end to the begging, debt or dishonesty.
So, she WAS one of 11 elites in the whole company and still didn’t make the top director trip??? How many go on this trip, three???
I am kind of loving the pink hair, though. (Since she “died” it and all.) 😂
Yeah isn’t it interesting that you’re part of this tiny group of fancy directors who are at the top, and you’re still not doing the top things!!! Now… part of the reason that this is tricky, is that when you have offspring directors, you lose all the production from them going forward. Now you’re stuck with a smaller unit, ordering a smaller amount, and the top director trip only factors in your unit’s orders, not the orders of offspring units. (For sure, there’s a benefit while someone is in DIQ, because THAT production does go toward Taylor’s numbers. But after they become their own unit, no more.)
So… the quest to get to nsd often leaves these directors with lower commissions checks during the churn. They spend several years trying to birth new directors, thereby decreasing their unit production after the new unit spins off. Commission checks suffer, car production can suffer. (Although, as we know, most units die within a year, so then all the people and production come back into the original unit.)
LOL I dyed when I saw my typo this morning.
FIXED!
I’m sure at least one has posted that she “died her hair” so it was a reasonable mistake to make 😉
Sorry PG, I wasn’t trying to call you out, I hadn’t even noticed your typo! I saw it on her post!
Omg you guys, you are right! I spelled it that way cause she did. I was laughing so hard when I wrote this one I had tears in my eyes.
You are hereby allowed all the typos you make. In fact, all of us are, we all make ’em.
I grant that by the power that is not invested in me. (other than I am salty and old– that counts somewhere)
This god of theirs is a silly goose.
Seriously the church should be shouting out how awful the way they are abusing God.
Maybe Milli the Goose is their god. Like Aaron’s golden calf but made of plastic and wearing a little pink bathrobe.
I find it so interesting that it is so common for these new directors to lose their units so quickly. It wasn’t like that so much when I was actively in Mary Kay in the 90’s. This pretty much proves these women are buying their way to directorship and not training their new consultants to be consistent sellers to submit consistent orders to sustain the unit. Just recruit and get that one big order to finish DIQ, whatever happens after that doesn’t matter…until it does.
“Her secret weapon is her Porch Goose Milli. Taylor will reward her team with a goose and they can earn outfits from her”
And they wonder why we laugh at them.
“It’s your professionalism that I respect!”
(Little Shop of Horrors)
“She offered $100 cash or $200 in product to anyone that either took orders or held Facebook parties for her.”
Let that sink in for a bit.
All for a pink car.
For the temporary use of a pink car.
Was Mary Kay husband-conga-line Ash ever photographed with her mouth popped open like that?
All of these muppet-mouths look so stupid. How is this at all professional?
Indeed a good exposé, Parsons Green.
Offering the goose as a reward reminds me of Linda Toupin’s 8 ways to get money – selling your farm animals, being one of them.
I think Taylor took her recommendations.
Btw, thank you to the one who shared the YouTube link. I was laughing so hard with my husband but in all seriousness, we are shocked at the carnage one single NSD can do. I am very sure it’s global. Multiply that with the number of NSDs worldwide and then exponentially with the number of sales directors who are “mentored” the same way. It’s a carnage.
“In 1975, Mary Kay herself challenged everyone in the sales force to try for a 10 show week.”
Yes: https://www.pinktruth.com/2020/01/06/the-miracle-of-mary-kays-10-class-week/
See how easy it is when you are the CEO of a real company and willing to bully your underlings.
Hey Tracy, this is both on and off topic, but is there a side by side comparison of how NIQ requirements have changed over the last 20- 30 years? I’d be curious about DIQ as well…the dangling carrot kept getting further away, and now it’s about to be yanked away entirely…
Porch Goose (geese?) are making a comeback. They are about to be a big trend. I heard they were big in the 80’s. Not sure why they are making a comeback, but I have heard a ton of people talking about them/getting them.