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Pink Truth

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  • 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

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Business BasicsInventory & Selling

Rachel Ryan Will Recruit 100 Consultants By June

Posted on February 16, 2023

Rachel Ryan, a sales director in Jamie Taylor’s national area, should offer a master class in audacious goal setting. Per her social media, she’s going to recruit 100 new consultants by seminar. We’ll ignore the fact that she only recruited Read more…

Sales Directors

Unit Clubs Help Us Calculate “Executive” Pay

Posted on February 15, 2023

Written by Raisinberry For decades, Mary Kay published commissions in Applause Magazine for the women at the top of the pyramid. The vast majority of the directors never graced those pages, so you couldn’t find out how much they were Read more…

Business BasicsInventory & Selling

New Consultant Can’t Sell Mary Kay Products

Posted on February 14, 2023

A new Mary Kay consultant is feeling “totally defeated” because no one wants her products. But it must be HER fault, right? Because Mary Kay is HUGE company. Bigger than MAC! (Except the truth is that MAC sells over $1 Read more…

NumbersSales Directors

Executive Income For Part-Time Mary Kay Work

Posted on February 13, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose Pink Truth has reported time and time again how little money Mary Kay sales directors earn. But how did we get to those income figures?  Surely, all those numbers are from grumpy former directors from years Read more…

Sales Directors

Dress Code at Leadership Conference

Posted on February 9, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose and Parsons Green Ah, Leadership Conference. Where the best of the best in Mary Kay, the directors and nationals, gather for three days of fellowship, pageantry, and glamour. With a heaping side dish of body shaming, Read more…

Numbers

How Many Leads You Need

Posted on February 8, 2023

Mary Kay is such a simple business! All you have to do is work the numbers. If you do the activity, you’ll get the results. They always forget to mention that you have to find the women first. They make Read more…

Recruiting

Build It and Give It Away

Posted on February 7, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose When I was deep in the Pink Fog, I spent a lot of time at the feet of the “great” Linda Toupin. Her stories of work ethic, of grit and tenacity, and of doing things “the Read more…

Business Basics

Doing Mary Kay My Way

Posted on February 6, 2023

I received this email from a relatively new Mary Kay consultant who wanted to share her experience with us. Hello and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to send you an e-mail. I have been a Mary Kay consultant Read more…

Sales Directors

Complaints about Leadership Conference in Nashville

Posted on February 2, 2023

Written by Frosty Rose Leadership conference, the “exclusive” gathering in January open only to sales directors and above, is always ripe with fodder for Pink Truth. Today, let’s take a peek at what the directors are saying behind closed doors Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

Nothing Has Changed in Mary Kay

Posted on February 1, 2023

Written by SuzyQ Hello again. Did you know that I sent my inventory back to Mary Kay in 2007? (Yes, that was almost 16 years ago!) And that many of the articles on Pink Truth authored by me were written Read more…

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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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