This is the reality of Mary Kay: In order to recruit people, you have to hit up hundreds of strangers until someone finally says yes. So many women have had MK parties, have been to MK parties, have been potential Read more…

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Kelly Brock was a top director with Mary Kay Cosmetics and had been with the company for years. Sometime late last year she stopped mentioning Mary Kay on Instagram, and instead spoke exclusively about things related to her “coaching” business.  Read more…

We regularly talk about the false earnings claims made by Mary Kay sales directors. It’s an important issue because the MONEY is what gets so many women to sign up as beauty consultants. They’re led to believe they can make Read more…

Another unsurprising instance of lying about profits by a Mary Kay sales director. This time we have Chelsea Claytor saying she “played in makeup and ate cookies and cupcakes” and “made $300 profit.” False earnings claims again. Chelsea uses Mary Read more…

I have been attempting to get information about the changes at Mary Kay Inc., but it has been challenging. Although the active distributors have received a bit of information, the details have been kept at the levels of upper management Read more…

Below is a little piece entitled “Maybe She Needs Me.” Here’s big news: No one needs Mary Kay. They don’t need a consultant’s fake (warm chattering) compliment. They don’t need Mary Kay’s average (or below) products… they’ve got Walgreen’s. They Read more…

An employee of Mary Kay Inc. just tipped me off that the company is discontinuing 4 of the 5 distribution centers that were servicing the sales force. All customer service employees other than those at the Dallas facility have been Read more…

One of the “selling points” used to lure recruits into Mary Kay is the promise of being able to get 90% of your money back on your inventory. Indeed, a fan of Mary Kay touted this “benefit” to me: A Read more…

Yesterday Cadillac director Ali Zornes posted Instagram stories showing her new Mary Kay office and studio in her family’s basement. She just remodeled it, and it’s cute. But I couldn’t help but notice the unit meeting area. (Yes, she did Read more…