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Pink Truth

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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
    • 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
  • Returning Inventory
    • FAQ About Quitting Mary Kay
    • Returning Your Starter Kit
    • Product Date Codes
  • 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

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Inventory & Selling

Chelsea’s Team Did Not Sell $602,000 of MK Products

Posted on July 17, 2023

Why do I have to expose this over and over? You’d think the Mary Kay ladies would eventually start telling the truth about their pretend businesses, but no. One of our favorites, Chelsea Adkins, encouraged her team and customers to Read more…

Inventory & SellingQuitting Mary Kay

Liquidating $21k of Mary Kay Inventory

Posted on July 13, 2023

How does one end up quitting Mary Kay … and having $21,000 of inventory to unload? THIS IS HOW. She was “queen of sales”… which is code for queen of ordering. In Mary Kay, any time they talk about “my Read more…

Cults and MLM

For Pink Truth Critics

Posted on July 12, 2023

Written by Happy and Free To all of our critics… We were once you. We know it seems hard to believe that we could ever say anything against Mary Kay. We know your director, your Sr. Director, your National Sales Read more…

Products

Pretend Mary Kay is Prestigious

Posted on July 11, 2023

Every so often, my former area in Mary Kay would get on this kick about pretending Mary Kay was a prestigious product and that the consultant’s time at a skin care class was a rare and valuable thing. We were Read more…

Business Basics

Money Madness in Mary Kay

Posted on July 10, 2023

Written by SuzyQ Every time Mary Kay announces a a new ordering contest or bonus offered by Mary Kay, I have to laugh. They happen so often. They’re all the same. Nothing is “new” in Mary Kay. Order more and Read more…

Business Basics

Mary Kay New Year For a New Recruit

Posted on July 6, 2023

Written by Raisinberry The days after the Mary Kay seminar year end wholesale buying frenzy are a celebration for some and a painful chest constrictor for most others. The typical director sleeps in on July 1 because of sheer exhaustion Read more…

Failure in MLM

Mary Kay Terminated Kimberly Perkins

Posted on July 5, 2023

Remember Kimberly Perkins? A former sales director for Mary Kay who once drove a pink Cadillac and was going to be a lifer. She quit in March 2021 and admitted to cheating while in MK. Kimberly just HAD to walk Read more…

Failure in MLMSales Directors

I Missed My Mary Kay Goals

Posted on July 3, 2023

With the Mary Kay seminar year ending, we get to hear the tales of success or tales of woe. Success: someone had enough room on a credit card to charge a ton of products, and therefore “finished a goal.” Woe: Read more…

Failure in MLM

Why MK Consultants Visit Pink Truth

Posted on June 29, 2023

This comment was left on an article and deserved to be highlighted as its own post. We know many Mary Kay consultants visit Pink Truth over and over again. If they’re happy in MK, why do they keep reading? To Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

It’s All Scripted in Mary Kay

Posted on June 28, 2023

Written by Happy and Free The love, the encouragement, the enthusiasm, the “heart-to-heart” conversations with your Mary Kay sales director, it has all been scripted. I didn’t realize this until after I left and found Pink Truth. I was in Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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    Circa mid 80's. You went after women who had money via rich husband or good paying job. Back then you…

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    FedEx is one of the worst shippers in the US. Why did Mary Kay stop using UPS? Costs?

  3. Frosty Rose on Mary Kay’s Shipping IssuesSeptember 11, 2025

    The steady plod towards affiliate only...

  4. Parsonsgreen on Mary Kay’s Shipping IssuesSeptember 11, 2025

    And I've noticed a lot more of the customer facing posts (like Miss Conceptions) talks about how Mary Kay will…

  5. Frosty Rose on Mary Kay’s Shipping IssuesSeptember 11, 2025

    This is bad! What a downgrade in service and attention for consultants!! At the risk of telling one of those…

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