Written by Emily First of all, thank you for creating Pink Truth and helping others discover the truth about Mary Kay and MLM. I’ve always been a generally skeptical person, and even as a child had a strong distaste for Read more…

Check out this recruiting script. It has all of the manipulative tactics you have come to expect from Mary Kay recruiters. (Really, recruiters for any MLM will use these.) There is the body language and the false flattery. Then you Read more…

The Mary Kay ladies need you to believe that home parties are not dead. Remember, in Mary Kay we pretend that the “business” is retail sales and everyone is selling lots of products. We’re not supposed to talk about how Read more…

A few years back, it was a big deal to be a “brand ambassador” for a company. To get a big one like Lululemon (when they were in their heyday) or cosmetic name like Smashbox was HUGE. You’d be your Read more…

Our friend Jamie Taylor wants you to believe that multi-level marketing (MLM) and direct selling are different! You’re supposed to look at this real so you can understand the difference. No one has accused Jamie of being smart. The post Read more…

Here’s a great way to lose your friends: Recruit them into Mary Kay! But of course MK is asking you to leverage your friendships and “bring your besties” into the company. Recruit them as soon as you sign up, and Read more…

Chelsea Claytor Adkins wants to be a “million dollar director,” and she will exploit you to get there. A Mary Kay sales director gets to “million” through lots of recruiting and getting women to order inventory packages (we call that Read more…

A woman in a “sales director only” group on Facebook wants to know Jamie Taylor’s secret to getting to NSD. The responses do not disappoint. They give great insight into how it’s done. If you don’t want to have to Read more…

Written by Lazy Gardens Did Mary Kay Ash say, “Nothing happens until someone sells something”? Or did she say, “Nothing happens until someone recruits someone.”? She said nothing happens until you sell something. Yet the company focus for decades has Read more…

The tactics used by Mary Kay ladies to recruit women into the scam know no bounds. Here we have a MK director who is trying to recruit a newly widowed woman who is “having a hard time making ends meet.” Read more…