When you’re grinding away at the Mary Kay “career ladder,” they tell you to just get through DIQ and everything is smooth sailing after that. Gathering up all of your recruits and conning them all into ordering on the right Read more…

A reader of Pink Truth shares this story of her mother, who has been in Mary Kay for 25 years. For all those former Mary Kay consultants who lost money and were told they didn’t try hard enough or weren’t Read more…

Written by A Former Sales Director Twenty five years after joining Mary Kay, I chose to retire. And what did I get from the company? What did I get from my upline? Absolutely nothing. My unit was in good standing Read more…

Written by Parsonsgreen Somer Fortenberry is a national sales director in Mary Kay who desperately wants to reach the Inner Circle this Seminar Year.  (Side note: Remember that time a former sales director exposed how Somer cheated to get to Read more…

A reader offers this discussion of how companies analyze a market (and the territories) to decide where to place distributors/retailers. Of course, Mary Kay does no such thing, telling consultants to ignore the concept of saturation and that countless reps Read more…

Written by PinkPeace Our friends. I have made/re-ignited real friendships in the real world, once I didn’t have to worry about hanging out only with “positive” people and trying to recruit every new person I met. Make-up stashes. Mine consisted Read more…

Written by Blackbird Every successful predator knows how to hunt its prey, right? Some predators use speed, agility, or ambush to accomplish their goals. Really intelligent predators though, don’t bother wasting time and their own energy chasing or stalking things. Read more…

Written by Parsonsgreen Lacey Bradford is a Mary Kay sales director who submitted for DIQ ten years ago. On one of her anniversaries, she posted about how Mary Kay had changed her life.  She was able to quadruple her yearly Read more…

Written by A Mary Kay Husband As much as I love my wife, I truly resented the magnitude of the pressure she was under to perform the Mary Kay marketing plan. To do her sales job with this cosmetics company, Read more…

This video is a few years old, but it’s a good one. Truth in Advertising went through the Mary Kay lies that are so common. Their list included: 1. Earn career-level income 2. Say goodbye to car payments 3. Go Read more…