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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
    • 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
Pink Truth

Pink Truth

Business Basics

What an Outsider Thinks of Mary Kay

Posted on April 30, 2024

Written by An Anonymous Reader I’m generally a lurker, but I’ve posted to the site occasionally since I joined. I’ve never been in Mary Kay or any MLM, but I found Pink Truth when looking up “MLM cult” after my Read more…

Recruiting

New Consultants Should Start Recruiting Right Away

Posted on April 29, 2024

You’re a new Mary Kay consultant, and you’re just learning the ropes. You’re excited, but a little scared about all the things you don’t know about your business. Your director is encouraging you to start recruiting. You want to get Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Your Negative Comments Make Me Sick

Posted on April 26, 2024

the negative comments make me sick! everything is so negative when you want to see it like that…. it’s better to get over and move forward . If Mk is past, leave it in the past… my advise! don’t live Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

No One Held a Gun to Your Head

Posted on April 25, 2024

Written by Raisinberry How many times have we seen a pinked-fogged consultant write to all of the Pink Truth readers telling us, “No one held a gun to your head.” They want to be clear that no one was about Read more…

Cults and MLM

Mary Kay is Not MLM

Posted on April 24, 2024

Written by The Scribbler Is there anyone out there who hasn’t been told by a Mary Kay recruiter, “We are not an MLM, we are dual-level!” It’s pretty much like being at Disney World in July and being told by Read more…

Recruiting

A Mary Kay Victim Spared

Posted on April 23, 2024

This one hit my inbox this month, and emails like this always make me happy. I never had a goal of “taking Mary Kay down.” My goal was always providing information so that anyone who decided to research MK could Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Mary Kay Paid Advertising

Posted on April 22, 2024

Written by Parsonsgreen Mary Kay previously prohibited paid advertising on social media by consultants. The only exception was that you could pay to boost a social media post from your business Facebook page to your followers. However, on April 3rd, Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Fourth Time is the Charm!

Posted on April 19, 2024

Apparently the fourth time is the charm for this Mary Kay consultant, since she failed the first three times she tried MK. She just didn’t work hard enough! Hi, I understand where everyone is coming from. I have read all Read more…

DIQFailure in MLM

Mary Kay DIQ Never Ends

Posted on April 18, 2024

When you’re grinding away at the Mary Kay “career ladder,” they tell you to just get through DIQ and everything is smooth sailing after that. Gathering up all of your recruits and conning them all into ordering on the right Read more…

Failure in MLM

25 Years of No Profits

Posted on April 17, 2024

A reader of Pink Truth shares this story of her mother, who has been in Mary Kay for 25 years. For all those former Mary Kay consultants who lost money and were told they didn’t try hard enough or weren’t Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

Visit the Pink Truth Discussion Board to discuss any topic you like. No praise or promotion of MLM is allowed. Please read the site rules carefully before signing up.
  1. Profreader on Kristin Sharpe and Brittani Jenks: Not in Good StandingFebruary 4, 2026

    “Brit would never profit. That’s not her heart.”

  2. SpunSilk on Losing Money on MK InventoryFebruary 4, 2026

    What she is not telling people in her post is that nearly everything she is selling is expired and discontinued.…

  3. BP on Katy Wore Pants on a Mary Kay StageFebruary 4, 2026

    Addition to my last post: I think a “This is a list of all of the ways Ryan is ruining…

  4. Mountaineer95 on Losing Money on MK InventoryFebruary 4, 2026

    She doesn’t understand sales at all. She’s asking an amount because it’s what she needs to “recoup”…when the truth is,…

  5. BP on Katy Wore Pants on a Mary Kay StageFebruary 4, 2026

    Well, yes. I was wondering if there’s a comprehensive list of his specific missteps that are sinking the company (vs…

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