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  • 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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Failure in MLM

The Math Behind MLM (and Why MLM Doesn’t Work)

Posted on November 20, 2024

Written by Rachel I recently read a quote from a site promoting an MLM: To recoup your initial $570 costs, focus on enrolling two distributors into your downline and then help them also enroll two people each. This is the Read more…

Sales Directors

Directorship is Harder Than They Make It Look

Posted on November 19, 2024

Written by SuzyQ “If it was that easy, everybody would be a director.” I heard this so many times from my upline and my sister directors. Being a sales director in MK is many things, and the “fake it ‘til Read more…

Recruiting

The Mary Kay Way to Overcome Objections

Posted on November 18, 2024

There are lots of reasons why women don’t want to become involved in Mary Kay Cosmetics. The recruiter’s job is to overcome those objections. She is given standard lines, like the below, to use to convince you to join. If Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Nothing in Life is Easy

Posted on November 15, 2024

A friendly note from a Pink Truth critic: To whom ever, Its sad to see former Directors and consultant bring down am oppurtunity like a job. No one put a gun to your head to sign an agreement. We sign Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Not Just One Bad Apple

Posted on November 14, 2024

Probably the most frequent challenge I hear to our real-life experiences with Mary Kay Cosmetics (other than “no one held a gun to your head!”) is “Oh, there’s always one bad apple in the bunch. Don’t judge the entire company Read more…

Sales Directors

$10,000 Unit Production Doesn’t Give You Executive Income

Posted on November 13, 2024

Written by PinkPeace Who still thinks that directorship is the way to real money in Mary Kay? There are lots of beauty consultants who think that if they just can make it to the “elite 2% of all those in Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Mary Kay Truths

Posted on November 12, 2024

Written by SuzyQ I was going to write an open letter to Mary Kay NSDs and sales directors, and I know they read here, but it seemed to be a futile gesture. I wanted to ask them to think, to Read more…

Culture & ManipulationFailure in MLM

Mary Kay Bankrupted Me

Posted on November 11, 2024

Written by Francine I was a Mary Kay consultant for two years and it financially devastated our family. We literally declared bankruptcy and I humbly and ashamedly want to express that we NEVER, not in ten million years, thought we Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

No Means No

Posted on November 8, 2024

TLDR: no one can make you do what you don’t want to do as an adult be an adult and use your words. I’m still in MK. I know that there are IBC’s who are horrible people and do force Read more…

Recruiting

Recruiting Lies in Mary Kay

Posted on November 7, 2024

The success of multi-level marketing depends on recruiting. Products can’t be retailed to REAL customers in sufficient quantities, so MLMs depend on the recruitment of distributors who buy the products. We know there is a very low level of actual Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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    If you meet one of these sales (ordering) or recruiting milestones, Somer with her “executive income” will gift you with…

  2. Mountaineer95 on Somer’s Directors Are Planning For Last Minute MiraclesSeptember 1, 2026

    But so many of them won’t understand; they sit like children with their fingers in their ears yelling “I CAN’T…

  3. Pinkboo on Somer’s Directors Are Planning For Last Minute MiraclesSeptember 1, 2026

    More actual numbers and data provided by current MK consultants proving the MK “opportunity” is a scam. Critics of Pink…

  4. Popinki on Somer’s Directors Are Planning For Last Minute MiraclesSeptember 1, 2026

    Frosty, I really appreciate how you break down down numbers so people can understand how well they are(n't) doing.

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    New recruiting pitch: "Join my Mary Kay team so you too can take your daughter to lunch and shopping, but…

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