If women in Mary Kay told the truth about the “opportunity,” they’d never recruit anyone. The truth is that it’s not about selling products, it’s about recruiting. Very little of the products that are ordered are actually sold to customers. Read more…

One of our favorite Mary Kay friends, Chelsea Claytor Adkins, has taken a social media break for the last couple of months. She’s appeared in the posts of others, but her Instagram feed has been dead for two months. Chelsea’s Read more…

How exciting! Jamie Taylor finally made it to NSD after finding recruits to push people through to DIQ, helping to fund initial inventory purchases to get enough production, and pushing women to pay their way to director and car driver. Read more…

I found an interesting Instagram account called Pleasantly Persistent. There are some great posts about why MLM (and Mary Kay in particular) is terrible. This one was so spot on!

We’ve seen this before. The transition to quitting Mary Kay. Leah Cade is considered a “top director” in MK since she sometimes appears in Applause magazine. Her commissions that have shown up in the last year ranged from 6,000 to Read more…

I think we have Truth in Advertising to thank for this one! This week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to over 1,100 multi-level marketing companies notifying them that future false claims about their money-making opportunities could result Read more…

LOL! No Mary Kay is NOT suing Pink Truth. Mary Kay Inc. has never had any communications of any sort with me, not through their lawyers or anyone else. Oh wait… there was that time that a Mary Kay upper Read more…

What a shame! You join Mary Kay “to reconnect with people” and suddenly they think all you want to do is push MK on them. I wonder why that would be? So poor Amanda wants this Mary Kay support group Read more…

Imagine devoting more than 30 years of your life to Mary Kay, and still not getting to the top. Cindy Machado Flippen doesn’t have to imagine. She has lived it. For 30 years she has been grinding… trying to get Read more…

Last week Mary Kay threatened to sue Jennifer Bickel Cook for writing a tell-all book about her time working for Mary Kay Ash and the Mary Kay Museum and Mary Kay Foundation. They made good on the threat on Friday. Read more…