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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…

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

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…

Failure in MLMNSD

Early Implosion of Jamie Taylor’s Verge Area

Posted on October 12, 2022

[updated November 2022 to record 3 more directors lost – 1 first line and 2 second line] Mary Kay Cosmetics is a never ending cycle of churning new recruits, big inventory packages, DIQs, and sales directors. It took Jamie Taylor Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Mary Kay Parties With Zero Sales

Posted on October 10, 2022

What happens when you hold a Mary Kay party and you sell nothing…. and a new recruit is watching? Retired NSD Anita Garrett Roe thought that was a good thing and even put together a training document it. She realized Read more…

NSDQuitting Mary Kay

NSD Shannon Andrews is Quitting Mary Kay

Posted on October 5, 2022

Longtime Mary Kay nsd Shannon Andrews is quitting! She has 13 more years to go until normal retirement at age 65, but has decided to retire now. I wonder what the reason is. It’s curious that she says she’s been Read more…

Inventory & SellingSales Directors

Directors Selling to Consultants in Other Units

Posted on October 3, 2022

Mary Kay sales directors are upset because consultants in their units are buying products at wholesale from other directors. Oops. Big no-no. So these directors who are selling are able to place product orders that get production for them (which Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Camp Holiday in Mary Kay

Posted on September 26, 2022

Written by Frosty Rose It’s confession time. Fall is my favorite time of year to not be in Mary Kay. When September starts, you’ll find me picking apples, browsing craft fairs (while diligently avoiding the MLMs that sneak in), and Read more…

Failure in MLM

Monique Anthony Now at Vasayo

Posted on September 16, 2022

When one multi-level marketing company doesn’t work out, Monique Vallair Anthony moves onto the next! Word on the street is that Amy Dunlap, former Mary Kay national sales director who sued MK on her way out of the company and 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. Latergator on Nsd Commissions for July and August 2026September 12, 2026

    Patricia and Sonia are in the same lineage~ Patricia’s Con Cache area ( I think that’s the name) is so…

  2. MSGTK on Stop Blaming the CompanySeptember 12, 2026

    Question for you, are you capable of an original thought? Why do you waste time regurgitating what has been repeated…

  3. Imewise on Stop Blaming the CompanySeptember 12, 2026

    “I was reading some of these stories and all I could think was, “Where was your common sense?’ I was…

  4. Onegative on Nsd Commissions for July and August 2026September 11, 2026

    Did her SIL retire? A few years ago she made inner circle so of she didn't retire, she fell fast.

  5. Heather on Nsd Commissions for July and August 2026September 11, 2026

    Because people do not reorder after front-loading. There is no consistency (hence all of the contests out there by NSDs…

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