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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
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Pink Truth Critics

Did You Think Mary Kay Was a Money Tree?

Posted on October 28, 2022

In 2008, I posted an article about Mary Kay on my business blog. And 14 years later, a Mary Kay loser thinks it’s important to tell me how we didn’t run our “business” as a business. She starts off with Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Mary Kay Hides Real Results

Posted on October 27, 2022

One of our readers provided this insight on Mary Kay Cosmetics. MARY KAY IS A SCAM which drives women into debt with their trinkets and labels them “failures” when the real issues are an unworkable, unprofitable business model and manipulative Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Why Attend Your Unit Meetings

Posted on October 26, 2022

Mary Kay unit meetings are the weekly chance to indoctrinate you with the Mary Kay Way. The way they keep you in is by constantly reinforcing the manipulation. If you step away, you start to get clarity about what a Read more…

Inventory & Selling

How New Directors Got Their Last 3 Customers

Posted on October 25, 2022

This one is designed to make you feel like you didn’t work hard enough. All you have to do is get more customers. More customers means bigger business for you. Well, no kidding! The trick is actually finding enough customers Read more…

Failure in MLM

Reasons Why You’re Failing in Mary Kay

Posted on October 24, 2022

Did you wonder why you were failing in Mary Kay? They don’t want you to think that it’s because of the system. 99% of people fail in MLM because it’s simply a pyramid scheme. You can’t retail enough products to Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Pink Truth Makes Me Cry

Posted on October 21, 2022

A few years ago, someone asked in a Mary Kay director’s group on Facebook about the explanation of why MK is not an MLM. (Here’s the nonsense corporate wrote about that.) And it took no time at all for group Read more…

Failure in MLM

About That 99% Failure Rate

Posted on October 20, 2022

We talk a lot about the 99% failure rate in multi-level marketing. (Yes, Mary Kay is an MLM.) Where does that failure rate come from? Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert has conducted extensive research despite the difficulties. Companies like Read more…

Numbers

There Is No 50% Profit

Posted on October 19, 2022

Those of us who have been hanging around Pink Truth for a while know that the idea of 50% profit in Mary Kay is a total lie. If a consultant sells all of her product at full retail, with no Read more…

Failure in MLM

Retiring From Mary Kay

Posted on October 18, 2022

Written by Frosty Rose I read this post on Pink Truth’s discussion board, and my heart is breaking for this woman. I don’t know Agnes at all. I don’t know her story, but this is Agnes’ fictional I-Story, courtesy of Read more…

Sales Directors

Heather Wickstrom is a Very Bitter Mary Kay Sales Director

Posted on October 17, 2022

Pink Truth offends Mary Kay sales director Heather Wickstrom. It has for years. I remember back in 2006 or 2007 when we were brand new, and she took it upon herself to contact me and say hateful things. I never 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 It’s Not You, It’s Mary KayJune 20, 2025

    She's on LinkedIn -- What a sad story. Shame on whoever it is that is telling her to BUY more…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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.

  5. 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”…

 

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