I always find it sad when Mary Kay ladies don’t realize they’re in a multi-level marketing company. They’ve been taught that MK is “direct sales” or “dual marketing” or “social selling”…. but certainly not MLM. Even Wikipedia knows that Mary Read more…

How many of you felt (or feel, if you’re still in) the sting of the holiday open house failure in Mary Kay? Your upline insisted that you order a ton of Christmas products. After all, they’re going to sell out Read more…

When your Mary Kay unit misses production, what do you do? Sales directors are required to have a minimum of $4,500 in wholesale orders from the unit each month. If your unit orders less than that, you’ve “missed production.” Mary Read more…

Written by SuzyQ I secretly love it when directors have a “good” month. In my former wannabe area, we competed for silly little prizes from the dollar tree in contests for highest monthly production and most recruits. It was terribly Read more…

Written by Diana I wanted to write and share a little of my quitting experience. I am mourning my MK business. I thought it was my ticket to financial freedom. I thought I had found a business that was faith Read more…

Written by Raisinberry Look, I am nobody… I was never one of your Seminar Stars. I was just a trudge-thru-the-murk “Premier Club” director, of which, there are hundreds! Maybe thousands. There is absolutely no reason for you to listen to Read more…

Here’s a post from a private Facebook group. The poor Mary Kay consultant has started and stopped her “business” over and over for the last 11 years. She keeps failing. She wants to make MK be her full-time gig, but Read more…

They tell us that multi-level marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme. When I say that it’s endless chain recruiting, they tell me that’s nonsense. But it IS all about recruiting. They pretend it’s about the products, but we’re bombarded by requests Read more…

Hello, false earnings claims from MK consultant Lauren Wagner. Lauren is a former sales director. Multiple-time contestant as a DIQ. Currently on the DIQ hamster wheel again. She likes to say that you do the “princess court” which is $20,000 Read more…

Remember Kimberly Perkins? A former sales director for Mary Kay who once drove a pink Cadillac and was going to be a lifer. She quit in March 2021 and admitted to cheating while in MK. Kimberly just HAD to walk Read more…