Written by Frosty Rose Mary Kay and its MLM ilk have long tussled with the FTC regarding deceptive income claims. Corporate wrings its hands and proclaims that its consultants are independent contractors and there’s only so much they can do Read more…

You may have heard how easy it is to earn a Mary Kay car in 3 months. All you have to do is recruit 7 women in the first month, 7 in the second, and 9 in the third. Never Read more…

It pays big to have “Mary Kay cars” on the road. It costs Mary Kay Inc. NOTHING (because consultants and directors pay for their own cars via the inventory orders they place), and is essentially free advertising for the company. Read more…

Written by SuzyQ Your director is the one who drives the Cadillac, you are not on the insurance. (You’re not even ALLOWED to drive it, since only people listed as “authorized drivers” on the MK paperwork are allowed to.) Your Read more…

I love evidence of the slow decline of Mary Kay Cosmetics in the United States. I would love it if Mary Kay collapsed right now, but that’s not realistic. So I’ll live instead for the slow decline of MK, as Read more…

The lies Mary Kay consultants and directors tell about how “easy” it is to earn a car in Mary Kay and how little time it takes! This is a training document which completely downplays the amount of time and effort Read more…

I was amused by the memory of this post from 3 years ago. Chelsea Adkins telling us about how Mary Kay is “not about the stupid pink car.” Oh, Chelsea and her goals. She was going to be an NSD Read more…

Mary Kay plants fluff pieces with the media to hype the company. Mary Kay’s public relations department sends out press releases and contacts reporters in hopes of getting television and print media coverage. This, of course, fuels the constant push Read more…

Last month at the “9 Losers on a Beach” event hosted by nsd Jamie Taylor, they created a whole bunch of social media content meant to fire up the downline. Our friend Chelsea Adkins (well, legally Chelsea Claytor, since she’s Read more…

Chelsea Claytor (Adkins) is excited because she picked up an official Mary Kay pink Cadillac. Her first Cadillac was one she leased on her own, since she didn’t meet the driving record requirements to drive one leased by Mary Kay. Read more…