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  • Welcome
    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
    • FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
    • Mary Kay Truths
  • About Pink Truth
    • Site Guidelines and Rules
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Pink Truth
  • Mary Kay Facts
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    • The Mary Kay Pyramid
    • Information for Mary Kay DIQs
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    • What is Multi-Level Marketing?
    • 99% Lose Money in MLM
    • Not Taught at Harvard
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    • FAQ About Quitting Mary Kay
    • Returning Your Starter Kit
    • Product Date Codes
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    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
    • NSD Compensation Chart
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Pink Truth

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Inventory & Selling

Is It Sales or Manipulation?

Posted on September 26, 2023

Written by Raisinberry Someone once said that there is a little bit of “BS” is in every sales presentation, and they weren’t talking about better service. Perhaps some time ago, Mary Kay’s sales environment and recruiting system might have been Read more…

Failure in MLM

The Mary Kay Numbers Game

Posted on September 25, 2023

They tell us that multi-level marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme. When I say that it’s endless chain recruiting, they tell me that’s nonsense. But it IS all about recruiting. They pretend it’s about the products, but we’re bombarded by requests Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Find the Weakness and Fill it With Mary Kay

Posted on September 21, 2023

Written by Raisinberry You may have not realized how sorry your life was before you met your Mary Kay consultant. In fact, you stupidly may have thought things were just kind of alright. You may have even been happy and Read more…

Numbers

Mary Kay Income Disclosures Through Pink Tinted Glasses

Posted on September 20, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose By this point, almost all of us on this site are familiar with government-mandated income disclosures that many direct sales companies (MLMs) are required to publish. Canada, in particular, is a reasonably comparable market to the US Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

So Much Good After Mary Kay

Posted on September 19, 2023

Written by SuzyQ Back in the early days of Pink Truth (2007), our members got to “watch” me implode as a Mary Kay sales director. It was such a process and I can’t imagine how I would have lived through Read more…

Cults and MLMVideos

The Road to Heaven is Paved With Cosmetic Sales

Posted on September 18, 2023

This 60 Minutes report on Mary Kay Ash from 1979 starts out by noting that Mary Kay doesn’t go a minute without invoking God…. “as if the road to heaven is paved with cosmetic sales.” God wants you to become Read more…

Sales Directors

Mary Kay Truth in Moms Groups

Posted on September 14, 2023

Mary Kay sales director Lacey Bradford is upset because people like us expose the truth about MLM: that you are almost guaranteed to lose money. When women are looking to earn money, MLM is one of the WORST decisions they Read more…

Failure in MLM

Lauren Wagner, Mary Kay Thousandaire

Posted on September 13, 2023

Hello, false earnings claims from MK consultant Lauren Wagner. Lauren is a former sales director. Multiple-time contestant as a DIQ. Currently on the DIQ hamster wheel again. She likes to say that you do the “princess court” which is $20,000 Read more…

Cults and MLM

…And Mary Kay Gets Into You

Posted on September 12, 2023

Written by SuzyQ You get into Mary Kay, and Mary Kay gets into you. Yesterday I talked about the culture of Mary Kay and how it becomes an obsession. I got out of Mary Kay, so why did I still Read more…

Cults and MLM

You Get Into Mary Kay

Posted on September 11, 2023

Written by SuzyQ Have you heard the saying that you get into Mary Kay and Mary Kay gets into you? It describes how immersed women get in the Mary Kay culture. It’s meant to be a fun phrase to throw Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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  1. KeepItSaltySweetie on Impossible to Get to NSDNovember 6, 2025

    And then somewhere in all these people you have to have customers to buy the stuff so you can put…

  2. Lolo on Impossible to Get to NSDNovember 6, 2025

    The hustle culture in MK is crazy and I’m sure even crazier at the NSD level. With the trainings, speaking…

  3. Data Junkie on Impossible to Get to NSDNovember 6, 2025

    "For every SEVEN new customers I added to my customer base: I signed only ONE new recruit." OP missed the…

  4. TRACY on Heather Wickstrom Is Worried About the Mary Kay Sales ForceNovember 5, 2025

    It is my understanding that upon retirement, Mary Kay purchases an annuity that pays out the specified amount the former…

  5. Marna Nightingale on Getting Pestered by a Mary Kay Lady at a RestaurantNovember 5, 2025

    She got off lightly at that. When people tell me they could "never get the hang of knitting" I roar…

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