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Pink Truth

Pink Truth

  • Welcome
    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
    • Mary Kay Truths
  • Mary Kay Facts
    • Top 10 Reasons to NOT Do Mary Kay
    • The Mary Kay Pyramid
    • Information for Mary Kay DIQs
    • Mary Kay Destroying Women
    • What is Multi-Level Marketing?
    • 99% Lose Money in MLM
    • Not Taught at Harvard
  • Mary Kay Documents
    • Mary Kay Consultant Agreement (2026 version)
    • Mary Kay Consultant Agreement (2019 version)
    • Mary Kay Sales Director Agreement
    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
    • NSD Compensation Chart
    • NSD Guide
    • Mary Kay’s Official Stance on Pink Truth
    • Business Opportunity Rule
    • Mary Kay NSD Emeritus Guide
    • Applause Magazine (US)
    • Applause Magazine (Canada)
  • Discussion Board
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Come To the Light!

Posted on May 3, 2008

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Culture & ManipulationPrizesRecruiting

Women and Children to the Pink Lifeboats!

Posted on May 2, 2008

 Written by Raisinberry How a sinking company makes a sinking consultant. You may not have noticed that your journey in Mary Kay was littered with multiple prize promotions. “Sure I did,” you say, “That was one of the selling points.” Read more…

Recruiting

Another Pink Truth “Mission Accomplished”

Posted on April 29, 2008

An email from a new reader: Today I spent my lunch hour at the local mall where a young woman approached me on my way out to tell me that “I look just like the type of girl Mary Kay Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Not Many Preferred Customers

Posted on April 27, 2008

Each quarter, Mary Kay Cosmetics sends out a “Preferred Customer” mailing. It goes to 6 million women. There are 700,000 U.S. consultants. That means that on average, each consultant has 8.5 customers on their preferred customer list. And for most Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Who Is Making Money Selling Mary Kay Products

Posted on April 27, 2008

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Today we have something dazzling for you to see. Something downright amazing. Women. Hundreds of thousands of them. Selling gobs and gobs of Mary Kay Cosmetics to actual customers who can’t seem to get Read more…

Sales Directors

Product Orders From a Mary Kay Cadillac Director’s Unit

Posted on April 27, 2008

Thing being a Cadillac sales director in Mary Kay is prestigious? Think they’re the ones making the big bucks and they’ve “really taught their girls to sell?” Think again. These are retail orders placed by consultants from July 1 through Read more…

Culture & ManipulationRecruiting

Being in Haute Water

Posted on April 27, 2008

Written by SuzyQ It seems that we have more than a few new readers on Pink Truth in the last couple of days. We are crediting the director suit picture in the email that “should not have been forwarded” for Read more…

Products

A Perspective on Changes to the Mary Kay Product Line

Posted on April 27, 2008

Written by Robin Peters In my comments and forum postings on Pink Truth, I have observed that I consider it desirable for a cosmetics company to "tweak" its line of color cosmetics every season to reflect the changes in garment Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Dear Mary Kay Sales Director Who Doesn’t Want Pink Truth to Get More Traffic Than It Already Does

Posted on April 26, 2008

Written by Raisinberry This is Raisinberry’s response to a Mary Kay sales director who wrote to her fellow directors, urging them not to read the “negative” websites. Thanks for your prayers. And thanks for at least trying to help your Read more…

Numbers

For 1.1 Million American Women, Mary Kay Will Not Be Great in 2008

Posted on April 26, 2008

More Mary Kay slogans… How many times will units hear about how things are “great in 2008” in Mary Kay? And how many times will consultants think they’re the only ones failing to get bookings and failing to sell products? Read more…

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    Lazy, thank you for putting together such a comprehensive Safety Plan. Finances encompass so many different arenas these days and…

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