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Pink Truth

Pink Truth

  • Welcome
    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
    • Mary Kay Truths
  • 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
  • Mary Kay Documents
    • Mary Kay Consultant Agreement
    • Mary Kay Sales Director Agreement
    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
    • NSD Compensation Chart
    • NSD Guide
    • Mary Kay’s Official Stance on Pink Truth
    • Business Opportunity Rule
    • Mary Kay NSD Emeritus Guide
    • Applause Magazine (US)
    • Applause Magazine (Canada)
  • Discussion Board
Pink Truth

Pink Truth

Business Basics

I Will Match My Time With Your Effort

Posted on September 27, 2023

Written by SuzyQ This is a favorite line from directors to new consultants. I love this line. It’s used so frequently, and it has sort of moved from myth status to urban legend. Gee, it even appears on some top Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Is It Sales or Manipulation?

Posted on September 26, 2023

Written by Raisinberry Someone once said that there is a little bit of “BS” is in every sales presentation, and they weren’t talking about better service. Perhaps some time ago, Mary Kay’s sales environment and recruiting system might have been Read more…

Failure in MLM

The Mary Kay Numbers Game

Posted on September 25, 2023

They tell us that multi-level marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme. When I say that it’s endless chain recruiting, they tell me that’s nonsense. But it IS all about recruiting. They pretend it’s about the products, but we’re bombarded by requests Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Find the Weakness and Fill it With Mary Kay

Posted on September 21, 2023

Written by Raisinberry You may have not realized how sorry your life was before you met your Mary Kay consultant. In fact, you stupidly may have thought things were just kind of alright. You may have even been happy and Read more…

Numbers

Mary Kay Income Disclosures Through Pink Tinted Glasses

Posted on September 20, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose By this point, almost all of us on this site are familiar with government-mandated income disclosures that many direct sales companies (MLMs) are required to publish. Canada, in particular, is a reasonably comparable market to the US Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

So Much Good After Mary Kay

Posted on September 19, 2023

Written by SuzyQ Back in the early days of Pink Truth (2007), our members got to “watch” me implode as a Mary Kay sales director. It was such a process and I can’t imagine how I would have lived through Read more…

Cults and MLMVideos

The Road to Heaven is Paved With Cosmetic Sales

Posted on September 18, 2023

This 60 Minutes report on Mary Kay Ash from 1979 starts out by noting that Mary Kay doesn’t go a minute without invoking God…. “as if the road to heaven is paved with cosmetic sales.” God wants you to become Read more…

Sales Directors

Mary Kay Truth in Moms Groups

Posted on September 14, 2023

Mary Kay sales director Lacey Bradford is upset because people like us expose the truth about MLM: that you are almost guaranteed to lose money. When women are looking to earn money, MLM is one of the WORST decisions they Read more…

Failure in MLM

Lauren Wagner, Mary Kay Thousandaire

Posted on September 13, 2023

Hello, false earnings claims from MK consultant Lauren Wagner. Lauren is a former sales director. Multiple-time contestant as a DIQ. Currently on the DIQ hamster wheel again. She likes to say that you do the “princess court” which is $20,000 Read more…

Cults and MLM

…And Mary Kay Gets Into You

Posted on September 12, 2023

Written by SuzyQ You get into Mary Kay, and Mary Kay gets into you. Yesterday I talked about the culture of Mary Kay and how it becomes an obsession. I got out of Mary Kay, so why did I still Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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  1. jurneeka on A Mary Kay Facial at StarbucksMay 18, 2026

    McDonald's huh? I certainly haven't been to every McD's but the ones near me (3) have either rebuilt entirely or…

  2. Mmmkay on A Mary Kay Facial at StarbucksMay 18, 2026

    Former manager of a sbux and coffee shop….no one cares if you do a facial there. I have seen plenty…

  3. Mmmmkay on A Consultant’s Experience With My ShopMay 18, 2026

    Might be due to FTC because it may look like you are giving a discount to get numbers for quota.…

  4. Super Executive Spaghetti Director on A Mary Kay Facial at StarbucksMay 18, 2026

    Based on my experience with Mary Kay, I would eat my hat if the consultant actually bought her customer's coffee.The…

  5. Marilyn Merriman on A Mary Kay Facial at StarbucksMay 18, 2026

    The potential customer wanted a place where she wouldn't feel trapped. Where she'd have control. I knew real estate agents…

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