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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
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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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Inventory & Selling

I Can’t Book a Facial

Posted on November 14, 2022

What do you do about the reality that you can’t get anyone to have a Mary Kay facial? When you haven’t sold anything in months? Possibly you could accept reality… that Mary Kay is a scam as a business.

Pink Truth Critics

Pink Truth Spreads Lies

Posted on November 11, 2022

On a recent thread in a Mary Kay sales director Facebook group, women were complaining about MK Inc. cracking down on income claims. Basically, consultants and directors aren’t allowed to make income claims of any sort, because it’s such dangerous Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

How Do Women Get Sucked Into Mary Kay?

Posted on November 10, 2022

Written by SuzyQ Okay, so here’s the thing… So many people ask the question… how do women get sucked into MK and why do they stay? Easy. Most of us do not get the recognition we crave in our everyday Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

“Do More, Get More” Churn in Mary Kay

Posted on November 9, 2022

Written by Raisinberry When I first came here I did not understand that it was the MLM system that was the destructive, predatory model. I was still brainwashed into the belief that those who “failed” at Mary Kay just didn’t Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Talking a Consultant Out of Returning Her Inventory

Posted on November 8, 2022

Here’s a tried and true method of talking a consultant out of returning her inventory. We wouldn’t want her to do that! After all, the sales director will get a commission chargeback if the consultant returns her products. We are Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Lying About the Mary Kay Inventory Buyback Program

Posted on November 7, 2022

Written by Frosty Rose There comes a moment in the evolution of every Pink Truther when the mask that Mary Kay has so skillfully worn for decades slips. She learns a sliver of truth, “stumbles upon” Pink Truth, and the Read more…

Relationships

At Whose Expense?

Posted on November 3, 2022

Written by NoEscape In Mary Kay we are told to take short term sacrifices for long term gains. But at whose expense? We are told to be women who find a way and make a way. But at whose expense? Read more…

Recruiting

What You Heard at That Recruiting Event

Posted on November 2, 2022

Written by Raisinberry One of our big problems is that when we were introduced to Mary Kay the information we were told was grossly overstated. Mary Kay Corp has attempted to clean up some of the outrageous statements, designed to Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Buying Into the Mary Kay Dream

Posted on November 1, 2022

Mary Kay recruiters have a fantastic ability to get you to suspend your logic and buy into this nonsense “business opportunity.” This is one consultant’s experience being manipulated, which led her to spend thousands of dollars. See the techniques that Read more…

Failure in MLM

My Appointments Don’t Hold

Posted on October 31, 2022

Poor Nancy S. North, Mary Kay sales director. She has been on the MK hamster wheel as a director since 1983. Yes, that’s 39 years. And her goal according to her website is to become a national sales director in Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

Visit the Pink Truth Discussion Board to discuss any topic you like. No praise or promotion of MLM is allowed. Please read the site rules carefully before signing up.
  1. Claire on You Didn’t Invest in Your MK BusinessJune 20, 2025

    I don't need cheap trinkets, hun. My self worth comes from INSIDE ,and not wearing dimestore jewelry. I would never…

  2. Wasrings90 on You Didn’t Invest in Your MK BusinessJune 20, 2025

    Over the last 25+yrs I have gone to my stylist at least 12 different salons (she rents her stations) The…

  3. J_crane on It’s Not You, It’s Mary KayJune 20, 2025

    I bet they weren't rude the first time, but had to use stronger language the 6th time you approached them.

  4. SpunSilk on It’s Not You, It’s Mary KayJune 20, 2025

    But they will tell you “don’t quit, because success could be right around the corner” But how many “ corners”…

  5. Destiny Angel on You Didn’t Invest in Your MK BusinessJune 20, 2025

    Obviously you all must not have invested properly in your business. ??‍ But I thought you only had to buy…

 

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