Let’s take a look back to the 2012 Harper’s Magazine cover story, The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Desperate Housewives. Mary Kay Inc. immediately responded to the article, but with almost no substance. There have been Read more…
One of the many sales directors Jamie Taylor has lost since finishing her national area in Mary Kay is MaryLei Applegate. (If you don’t want to read the linked article, the summary is that since finishing the requirements for NSD Read more…
Poor Nancy S. North, Mary Kay sales director. She has been on the MK hamster wheel as a director since 1983. Yes, that’s 39 years. And her goal according to her website is to become a national sales director in Read more…
Did you wonder why you were failing in Mary Kay? They don’t want you to think that it’s because of the system. 99% of people fail in MLM because it’s simply a pyramid scheme. You can’t retail enough products to Read more…
We talk a lot about the 99% failure rate in multi-level marketing. (Yes, Mary Kay is an MLM.) Where does that failure rate come from? Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert has conducted extensive research despite the difficulties. Companies like Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose I read this post on Pink Truth’s discussion board, and my heart is breaking for this woman. I don’t know Agnes at all. I don’t know her story, but this is Agnes’ fictional I-Story, courtesy of Read more…
[updated November 2022 to record 3 more directors lost – 1 first line and 2 second line] Mary Kay Cosmetics is a never ending cycle of churning new recruits, big inventory packages, DIQs, and sales directors. It took Jamie Taylor Read more…
Written by Raisinberry The “Devil’s Advocate” sets the record straight…in the words of Mary Kay Cosmetics… You Pink Truth-ers have sure had some rough times. And we appreciate all you have been through. It saddens us to see just how Read more…
When one multi-level marketing company doesn’t work out, Monique Vallair Anthony moves onto the next! Word on the street is that Amy Dunlap, former Mary Kay national sales director who sued MK on her way out of the company and Read more…
Mary Kay works when you do! No it doesn’t. There is a reason why sales directors earn so little. This story details the struggles of new sales director who quit after the debt and the fight became too much for Read more…
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We threw better slumber parties than that in kindergarten!! At the very least, the hostess gave us pizza and cake!
I saw a sleepover advertised at a National's home. The lucky ladies who earned it were requested to bring their…
I swear there was one time I saw a flyer for a sleepover at a director's house and each winner…
Well these ARE the people who recommend giving hotel bathroom toiletries to unit members as prizes!
Thank you Raisinberry. Many hugs to you and those victimised. “Drawn in, we succumbed to a game of comparisons, of…