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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…

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…

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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. Frosty Rose on Not Cleta’s “Best Year Ever”July 24, 2025

    I can’t tell you how happy I was to learn that they’re down to 122 nsd’s. We are making a…

  2. JL on The Mary Kay Seminar ExperienceJuly 24, 2025

    I wonder if part of the move to Charlotte is to hide the shrinking size of the sales force.

  3. SpunSilk on The Mary Kay Seminar ExperienceJuly 24, 2025

    I’ll be curious to see what the attendance is for the 2 Seminars,(Ruby/Diamond and Emerald/Sapphire) if you can find accurate…

  4. Madeline on The Mary Kay Seminar ExperienceJuly 24, 2025

    Same thing year after year. Wash, rinse, repeat. The company is shrinking and there will probably be more changes\cuts after…

  5. MSgt K on Not Cleta’s “Best Year Ever”July 24, 2025

    40 straight seminar years??? Ugggg! How? Once was plenty for me. I dont know how anyone can't see thru the…

 

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