Written by Lazy Gardens More on Dr. Mark Barlow’s promotion of Mary Kay products in his medical practice, and the potential conflict of interest with his wife as a Mary Kay sales director… When I read the “Letter from Dr. Read more…

Written by Lazy Gardens What’s the story behind a doctor who is promoting Mary Kay products? What training does he really have, and what is his inside connection to Mary Kay? In the things that make you go hmmmmmmmm department, Read more…

Written by SuzyQ Oh oh. Could there be trouble with Mary Kay’s new mineral foundations and eye shadows? Yikes. I mean in addition to the fact that they are very small… I know, I know, they are hyper-pigmented and all, Read more…

You’ve heard how fabulous Mary Kay Cosmetics is because they have a wonderful product loved by many. You’ve been led to believe that tons and tons of Mary Kay products are being retailed to adoring customers around the world. But Read more…

Mary Kay has apparently changed the rules of the product replacement system, but hasn’t bothered to tell anyone. In theory, Mary Kay has a 100% satisfaction guarantee… that means a customer can return a product at any time and get Read more…

From time to time, Mary Kay sales directors send out mass emails about the company’s product guarantee. In these emails, they’re discussing all the ways that the company might be trying to “get out of” honoring the 100% satisfaction guarantee Read more…

At Pink Truth, we have a short (but colorful) history of spoiling Mary Kay’s secret planned product launches. Most notably, I announced the plans to change all lipsticks, compacts, and color cosmetics to the new black compacts… a full six Read more…

  About 6 months before Mary Kay's scheduled announcement, Pink Truth announced that Mary Kay Cosmetics was planning on changing its entire line of color cosmetics. That would include compacts, lipsticks, cheek colors, eye colors, foundations… the whole works with Read more…

Written by Robin Peters In my comments and forum postings on Pink Truth, I have observed that I consider it desirable for a cosmetics company to "tweak" its line of color cosmetics every season to reflect the changes in garment Read more…

Why change all the color cosmetics at Mary Kay Inc. Wasn’t the platinum packaging nice? Wasn’t it hip? Didn’t our customers like it? Apparently not. In 2008, Mary Kay Cosmetics decided to make a massive change to all of the Read more…