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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 (2026 version)
    • Mary Kay Consultant Agreement (2019 version)
    • 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
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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…

Pink Truth Critics

Pink Truth Makes Me Cry

Posted on October 21, 2022

A few years ago, someone asked in a Mary Kay director’s group on Facebook about the explanation of why MK is not an MLM. (Here’s the nonsense corporate wrote about that.) And it took no time at all for group Read more…

Failure in MLM

About That 99% Failure Rate

Posted on October 20, 2022

We talk a lot about the 99% failure rate in multi-level marketing. (Yes, Mary Kay is an MLM.) Where does that failure rate come from? Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert has conducted extensive research despite the difficulties. Companies like Read more…

Numbers

There Is No 50% Profit

Posted on October 19, 2022

Those of us who have been hanging around Pink Truth for a while know that the idea of 50% profit in Mary Kay is a total lie. If a consultant sells all of her product at full retail, with no Read more…

Failure in MLM

Retiring From Mary Kay

Posted on October 18, 2022

Written by Frosty Rose I read this post on Pink Truth’s discussion board, and my heart is breaking for this woman. I don’t know Agnes at all. I don’t know her story, but this is Agnes’ fictional I-Story, courtesy of Read more…

Sales Directors

Heather Wickstrom is a Very Bitter Mary Kay Sales Director

Posted on October 17, 2022

Pink Truth offends Mary Kay sales director Heather Wickstrom. It has for years. I remember back in 2006 or 2007 when we were brand new, and she took it upon herself to contact me and say hateful things. I never 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. Lazy Gardens on A True MK BelieverSeptember 5, 2026

    yes there are a few that won’t give up. You know who else wouldn't give up? The Donner Party. What…

  2. Popinki on A True MK BelieverSeptember 5, 2026

    The church I grew up in wasn't cultish, but the pastors were treated like perfect and infallible paragons who had…

  3. Enorth on A True MK BelieverSeptember 4, 2026

    It’s a cult. She feels guilty for leaving. It’s like the Church I was raised in. Members complained vehemently about…

  4. SpunSilk on A True MK BelieverSeptember 4, 2026

    She won’t give up. What is she working toward, more debt? She actually sounds pretty messed up.

  5. enorth on A True MK BelieverSeptember 4, 2026

    "I still have debt...I’ve been sick most of that time...I work when I can, my mk money goes to bills,…

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