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  • Welcome
    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
    • FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
    • Mary Kay Truths
  • About Pink Truth
    • Site Guidelines and Rules
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    • Contact Pink Truth
  • Mary Kay Facts
    • Top 10 Reasons to NOT Do Mary Kay
    • The Mary Kay Pyramid
    • Information for Mary Kay DIQs
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    • 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
  • 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 & 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…

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…

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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. Char on Just Let It GoJuly 26, 2025

    (Approaching from a different perspective. Food for thought.) “So we’re not negative. We tried really hard. We sacrificed family time.…

  2. MSgtK on Just Let It GoJuly 26, 2025

    Why are Y O U here? Isn't it a better use of your time to be booking all those parties…

  3. Imewise on Just Let It GoJuly 25, 2025

    Hmmm… if it is so good, why during directors training was I taught 1/3 are working, 1/3 are not working…

  4. CoralRose on The Mary Kay Seminar ExperienceJuly 25, 2025

    I thought the convention center in dallas was being renovated and that’s why they chose Charlotte. I was watching the…

  5. Parsonsgreen on Just Let It GoJuly 25, 2025

    If your Mary Kay experience was happy, fun, and profitable why do you keep coming back?

 

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