Almost no one gets to the status of national sales director in Mary Kay. No matter how hard a director works, her chances of gathering the number of women needed to get to national are extremely low. It’s a system Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose Hot take! Senior nsd Dacia Wiegandt, wanna be social influencer, is taking her girls on this beautiful day to Sephora! Keep in mind, all Mary Kay consultants are brow-beaten to only use Mary Kay products—they’re a Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose Mary Kay infinite-last-names Ash used to encourage women to dream bigger. That they could achieve anything with enough belief. Just watch the women on stage, she would say. Those national sales directors in front of crowds Read more…

Every 2 years, the Mary Kay sales directors and national sales directors get new suits that they are required to wear to all company events. Yes, it’s basically a uniform. Why? Well, it’s a cult-like tactic used by Mary Kay Read more…

This piece was written several years ago by our member JTA. She was a longtime Mary Kay sales director who came close to becoming a national sales director, and then decided to give it all up. I’m running it again Read more…

Written by Raisinberry I can remember when things were much different in Mary Kay. I think that for the most part, that old school mental image was in our minds when we conducted every recruiting interview, every career talk. We Read more…

It’s that time of year when the focus is creating class envy in Mary Kay. The haves and the have nots. The main even is the annual national sales director trip. Mary Kay loads up all of the nsds and Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose National sales director Mia Mason Porter is the stuff of Mary Kay legend. Debuting as an NSD in 2012, she became the younger half of the first African American mother-daughter NSD pair in company history. She 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…

Longtime Mary Kay nsd Shannon Andrews is quitting! She has 13 more years to go until normal retirement at age 65, but has decided to retire now. I wonder what the reason is. It’s curious that she says she’s been Read more…