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    • Not Taught at Harvard
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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…

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…

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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. Two Hearted on Not Cleta’s “Best Year Ever”July 28, 2025

    I think she means BUY BUY, not BYE BYE. It’s okay- homophones are hard.

  2. Pinkiu on The Mary Kay FlopportunityJuly 28, 2025

    Sandra said the quiet part out loud, “It’s not how much you sell it’s how much you “order”.” That’s what…

  3. Jasmari on The Mary Kay FlopportunityJuly 28, 2025

    This is one of the saddest stories I’ve read here. I hope she gets out and stays out sooner than…

  4. Maggie on The Mary Kay FlopportunityJuly 28, 2025

    So after you sign up for Mary kay you have to chit chat with strangers to buy from you? Where's…

  5. Debra on The Mary Kay FlopportunityJuly 28, 2025

    Ellen Bowman Cox. Incorporating the Mary Kay go-give spirit. Sigh.

 

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