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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 (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
Pink Truth

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Inventory & Selling

Sales Strategies in a Real Business

Posted on April 11, 2024

A reader offers this discussion of how companies analyze a market (and the territories) to decide where to place distributors/retailers. Of course, Mary Kay does no such thing, telling consultants to ignore the concept of saturation and that countless reps Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

What I Don’t Miss About Directorship

Posted on April 10, 2024

Written by PinkPeace Our friends. I have made/re-ignited real friendships in the real world, once I didn’t have to worry about hanging out only with “positive” people and trying to recruit every new person I met. Make-up stashes. Mine consisted Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Mary Kay Predator and Prey

Posted on April 9, 2024

Written by Blackbird Every successful predator knows how to hunt its prey, right? Some predators use speed, agility, or ambush to accomplish their goals. Really intelligent predators though, don’t bother wasting time and their own energy chasing or stalking things. Read more…

Failure in MLM

Consultants Can’t Sell Mary Kay Products

Posted on April 8, 2024

Written by Parsonsgreen Lacey Bradford is a Mary Kay sales director who submitted for DIQ ten years ago. On one of her anniversaries, she posted about how Mary Kay had changed her life.  She was able to quadruple her yearly Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Why is Pink Truth So Negative?

Posted on April 5, 2024

Why does the Pink Truth go on and on with such negativity? If you don’t like Mary Kay that is your choice but your raging ragging is over the top!! Why not take all that negative energy and try to Read more…

Failure in MLM

More Than Meets the Eye

Posted on April 4, 2024

Written by A Mary Kay Husband As much as I love my wife, I truly resented the magnitude of the pressure she was under to perform the Mary Kay marketing plan. To do her sales job with this cosmetics company, Read more…

Videos

Mary Kay’s Deceptive Pinky Promises

Posted on April 3, 2024

This video is a few years old, but it’s a good one. Truth in Advertising went through the Mary Kay lies that are so common. Their list included: 1. Earn career-level income 2. Say goodbye to car payments 3. Go Read more…

Cults and MLM

Podcasts About MLM and Mary Kay

Posted on April 2, 2024

I have two recent podcasts that are wonderful for women coming out of multi-level marketing (MLM) and women looking to learn more about MLM.  I was on the Divorce Survival Guide podcast with Kate Anthony, in an episode entitled The Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

Reaching the Tipping Point

Posted on April 1, 2024

Written by SuzyQ The process of deciding to leave Mary Kay is daunting. There are so many unanswered questions, a lot of fear, guilt, anger and grief. We get into Mary Kay and Mary Kay gets into us. At one Read more…

Caption This PhotoCareer Conference

Caption This Photo

Posted on March 30, 2024

We haven’t done this in a long time! This is a photo from Career Conference 2024. It’s sales director Sherrie Purvis and a pair of giant pink panties. I presume this is a “put on your big girl panties” talk Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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  1. Lazy Gardens on Don’t Run Your Mouth About Mary KayAugust 21, 2026

    "MARY KAY is a business model studied by Havard Business College and many other entities" It was ONE case study,…

  2. Super Executive Spaghetti Director on Don’t Run Your Mouth About Mary KayAugust 21, 2026

    "Or other spa like experiences." Hahahaha. Putting products on your face, hands, or feet in your home is NOT a…

  3. Jaded Jane on Events Keep You In the Pink FogAugust 20, 2026

    I’m exhausted just reading about all that nonsense. And the expense of all those “training” sessions and whatnot, for nothing…

  4. Colleen on Events Keep You In the Pink FogAugust 20, 2026

    Cults do this also.

  5. Coral Bliss on Events Keep You In the Pink FogAugust 20, 2026

    It was around 2001...It had candles, a tea set, nick-nacks and chotzkis. Nothing having to do with skin care or…

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