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…

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…

A pro-Mary Kay woman attempted to post the following comment: What does it matter how many people drive a pink Cadillac or how few people make alot of money? Most people in most businesses fail because of numerous reasons… Mainly Read more…

This young woman was a Mary Kay director who bought into all the hype and into appearing successful. Bought into it… literally. Does that sound crazy? Only if you’ve never actually been in Mary Kay or if you’re in Mary Read more…