Written by Queen of Section 2 I learned a lot of lessons while in Mary Kay. It’s easy to listen to your upline. You think they have your best interest at heart. But they truth is that they have THEIR Read more…

We’ve heard it before! You don’t have to recruit in Mary Kay. You can make a good income simply from selling the products. Recently we looked at a Cadillac unit that was failing miserably at selling enough products make a Read more…

What can we learn about the strength of Mary Kay’s business in the United States? The company stopped telling us how many consultants they had in the U.S. around 2008, when they reported 600,000. Since then, they’ve only reported the Read more…

The lies in Mary Kay are not restricted to consultants, directors, and national sales directors. The husbands regularly get in on the action, trying to add an air of legitimacy to the “business.” Sure… if the husband says it’s legit, Read more…

A former Mary Kay sales director shares how her her story was like a gambling addiction, waiting to hit the jackpot with the big commission check.  My journey to the end began the day I was on the computer looking Read more…

Whether people want to admit it or not, no one makes it to sales director in Mary Kay without signing up family and friends as consultants. It’s simply too hard to get the numbers you need without calling in favors Read more…

Mary Kay is deep into its “All In With 8” promotion, which lets consultants enter DIQ (director in qualification) with 8 active team members instead of the usual 10. In addition, the requirements to complete DIQ have been reduced, but Read more…

Last month we talked about whether you could make a living selling Mary Kay products. Just selling skin care and cosmetics, not recruiting. If you sold $1,000 per week every week, you’d be lucky to profit $14,500 per year after Read more…

Written by SuzyQ I attended a conference far far away in another state and it just so happened that there were mostly women at the conference.  And because we are women, there was make-up touching-up going on from time to Read more…

I’m starting to think that we could do a whole series on the false earnings claims that sales directors and NSDs in Mary Kay do in furtherance of their recruiting activities. Of course, there are laws specifically prohibiting MLM representatives Read more…