One popular piece of Mary Kay Fiction is called How to Make $100,000 a Year as a New Director. Of course, the program outlined in this document is next to impossible to achieve. How do I know? There are about Read more…

It’s just good business to maximize your Mary Kay commission check, right? We’ve all heard the upline talk about not “leaving money on the table.” In general, I don’t mind the concept of making the most money possible. Yet when Read more…

Inevitably, at every Mary Kay event, you will be told that things have never been better for the company. The company has never been stronger! This is the greatest [insert event name] ever! How exciting to be a part of Read more…

Written by The Scribbler My frustrated toddler hurled her juice cup across the room while I made another toy-recovery loop around the house.  Scientists haven’t yet figured out the basics of teleportation, but it’s only because they haven’t gone to Read more…

Mary Kay is now delivering products directly to customers for participating national sales directors and sales directors. It’s currently considered a “pilot” program, presumably to see how well it works. Only sales directors who are “star consultants” can participate in Read more…

The following are notes taken by a Mary Kay sales director on Chief Marketing Officer Rhonda Shasteen’s presentation at a recent “Power Up” in Minnesota. I’ll let the notes speak for themselves, but be sure to pay close attention to Read more…

A note sent by one of our readers… I stumbled on your website a few weeks ago and get a kick out of all the stories everyone has and am too horrified about the debt people put themselves into for Read more…

Written by The Scribbler Sassy Senioritas, if there was ever a time to keep one tastefully-shadowed eyeball over your shoulder in careful vigilance, it’s now, because hard-charging Mary Kay Sales Directors have their Go-Give switches flipped to “Search and Destroy” Read more…

A submission from a reader of Pink Truth: Last week I find out from a mutual friend of a co-workers that it is my co-worker’s birthday.  The mutual friend asked if I would make sure the office did something nice Read more…

It’s easy for us to forget that other MLMs suck just as bad as Mary Kay. I haven’t yet found one that isn’t a basic recruiting scheme, with the “real” money given out for recruiting (since the companies can’t stay Read more…