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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
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    • Mary Kay Sales Director Agreement
    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
    • NSD Compensation Chart
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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…

Culture & Manipulation

Maximize Mary Kay Orders

Posted on June 27, 2023

Written by Raisinberry Everything in Mary Kay is set up to maximize team and unit ordering. It doesn’t matter to corporate if a single product is sold to a bona fide customer, although those sales do help perpetuate the con. Read more…

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    The only anger I ever see around here comes from the Friday critics, the ones who claim they're so happy…

  2. Lolo on The Fabricated Image of Mary KayNovember 11, 2025

    Leaving MK was much more emotional than I thought it would be. I had such a great hope and desire…

  3. Claire on The Fabricated Image of Mary KayNovember 11, 2025

    oh Tracy! Roberta Blevins mentioned you on her podast Sunday , "Life After Mlm". Part 2 of Mary Kay has…

  4. KeepItSaltySweetie on The Fabricated Image of Mary KayNovember 11, 2025

    “Leaving mad” part is directed to the lurkers who say we’re angry and didn’t work. We’re not angry. We’re good…

  5. Data Junkie on The Fabricated Image of Mary KayNovember 11, 2025

    Who would know better how to exploit womens' insecurities than a woman? And so effective was she that women would…

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