Power Start, Power Flop
Written by Parsons Green
Carrie Cardwell (formerly Zuberer) challenged herself to have a Power Start. This is a made up Mary Kay term for seeing 30 faces in 30 days. She first announced this attempt on August 19th, and she only needed 29 faces to finish by September 6th. She and a fellow consultant were holding a Beauty Social and one lucky winner would receive $100 CASH.
Carrie then moved the goal post, gave herself a couple extra weeks, and stated she needed 18 people to finish by September 22nd.
She saw two faces that day, then saw 7 in the next two days!!! She only needed nine to finish and had one day to do it.
Sadly, but expectedly, Carrie didn’t let us know if she finished or not. But, by the tone of this post, she did not.
Carrie has been in and out of directorship multiple times. She once drove a Cadillac, but now doesn’t qualify for any of the Mary Kay cars. But she has confidence!
Carrie’s posts and lack of engagement show that people don’t want or care about these products. Everyone in Carrie’s social circle has either hidden her on Facebook or just scrolls on by. If Carrie can’t get people to sign up for a “free” facial, how can she expect any of her recruits to have any type of success?
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Two things I noticed that would have put me off about helping her with her goal. Why do so many MK reps refer to women as girls? And why does she only want “cute” people? If I were trying to sell makeup, I think I would want to offer any woman a product that would let them feel and look better.
Exactly. I’m a grown-ass woman holding down a job. I got the cute out of my system back in the 80s. I rarely wear makeup, and when I do it’s for An Event (or to cover up a really monumental zit… thanks, perimenopause.) I don’t want to look like Strawberry Shortcake with hypothermia. Nor do other professional women, especially those in careers where women have historically had trouble being taken seriously.
And, yes, everyone’s money spends the same, whether they are cute, sophisticated, goth, old, young, or anything else.
Blush that looks like rosacea and Corpse Bride lipstick. Is she freaking colorblind? I’d take makeup advice from the Joker first. And the wide staring eyes and fixed grin are just creepy. Someone ought to put out a tutorial on how to act natural. These huns need it.
Anybody whose makeup looks this bad is NOT going to be “borrowing” my face!
So many of them are so overdone.
There’s a saying that less is more for a reason. It’s a common factor that MK folks spackle on too much and have little skills. As they get no training. The only training at the rah-rahs is stalk, hound, stalk, hound, frontload, get into credit card debt and spend spend spend. Ryan has lawsuits y’know.
I absolutely LOVE cheek color and have soooo many (way too many lol) “color” products, in tons of shades, that double as a lip stain or tint as well. So I have (at least I think so) mastered the art of blending and using color sparingly. This whole over the top clown look Carrie is sporting here is just…ugh. Poor over use of what are otherwise pretty colors (though the pinks and lilacs don’t all belong on the same face at the same time imo).
Plus, if I want to play with a new color product, I can find top brands on sale at TJ Maxx or Ulta or wherever and not have to overspend so that a pyramid upline gets their commissions.
“If Carrie can’t get people to sign up for a ‘free’ facial, how can she expect any of her recruits to have any type of success?”
Exactly. This is why I ask MLMers to prove it can work for them personally before I will even entertain a discussion. Until that time, I don’t want to hear another word about it.
And if they somehow manage to reach the top ranks (nearly impossible…I’ve met tons of MLMers in my life, but not a single successful one), that eventual discussion will include a mathematical model of the downline carnage required to achieve what they achieved. They won’t listen, of course, but I will at least get a chance to demonstrate that I know full well about their dishonest gains, with a relatively accurate forecast of the aggregate harm they have done.
I’ve had these discussions on the past with idealistic MLMers who were in the process of climbing the ranks. You’d think their head was about to explode when I demonstrated the cumulative losses required in their downline for them to achieve their goals. They’ve called me a pariah, the devil, possessed etc., and with only one exception, terminated the relationship.
This is why I no longer have these discussions with folks “on the rise”. I simply say, “Prove you can make it work, then we’ll talk.” This way, experience does the work for me, and the relationship survives. They will not listen to reason. Sadly, they have to experience it for themselves.
Many, like Carrie above, are slow learners.
All the old gimmicks that Mary Kay consultants have used just don’t work anymore in the modern world. I’m not sure they ever have. The 30 faces in 30 days, the 10 class week, giving out roses in a restaurant bathroom( super ick!) and all the other “free facial” giveaways are a thing of the past. There is way too much competition from Sephora, Ulta and the hundreds of make up companies on Instagram and TikTok for Mary Kay to survive. Their newest campaign of “sharing beauty” is in my opinion a huge step backwards, they’re even using the old logo in the ads. I truly think MK is on it’s way out for good.
Has Carrie figured out how much actual profit she needs to make before she can give away $100? These women have zero business sense and no idea how to compose a Profit & Loss statement.
Funny how she no longer mentioned this prize in her posts once it started looking like achieving this silly 30 face goal was hopeless.
Another feature of MK training – accounting is highly discouraged. That’s negative nellyism dontchaknow. If people did actually sit down at Excel and crunched the numbers they’d see they were making huge losses and nope out in a New York minute. Hence the discouraging of business skills.
Even beyond the frozen corpse makeup, her eyes and grin look completely psycho. No, I’m not going to buy makeup or want anything to do with someone who looks like they’re about to pull out a knife and chase me.
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It may just be the poor lighting but it looks like pinpoint pupils to me. It’s not unheard of for the stress of being in MK to drive people to drink and drugs. The toll of MK on people’s mental health is catastrophic.
Oooh, good catch! I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a bump of Mommy’s Little Helper.
Its the word “pampering” that always have my eyes rolling. 🙄
always reminds me of diapers. MK lingo is something else “servicing clients” is only legal in Nevada. And facialing a client will have the vice squad round.
The dress in the Rome picture….that is terrible…along with that whatever look she is trying to go for. Ugggg
No way would I buy make up from anyone that looks like a clown. Tone it down, hon.