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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
Pink Truth

Pink Truth

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…

Cults and MLM

You Call It a Cult….

Posted on September 5, 2022
Cars

Going Down Memory Lane with Chelsea

Posted on September 1, 2022

I was amused by the memory of this post from 3 years ago. Chelsea Adkins telling us about how Mary Kay is “not about the stupid pink car.” Oh, Chelsea and her goals. She was going to be an NSD Read more…

Inventory & Selling

Losing Money on MK Inventory

Posted on August 30, 2022

Mary Kay products are so easy to sell! They just fly right off the shelf! It’s not even really like selling… you just share the products and people buy them. Except they really don’t. It’s almost impossible to create a Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Don’t Interview…. Innerview!!!

Posted on August 18, 2022

NSD Kathy Helou tells you to do an “innerview” (rather than an interview) of your potential victim. The idea is that you get her to tell you her weaknesses, and then you tell her how Mary Kay will solve those Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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  1. Popinki on Reasons Why You’re Failing in Mary KaySeptember 18, 2026

    As Data Junkie pointed out on Thursday's post, calling it a "business" while having no grasp of business concepts ain't…

  2. Popinki on You Didn’t Have Common SenseSeptember 18, 2026

    If she doesn't "sale" MK, I'm Whoopi Goldberg. This is straight out of the Mary Kay Kliche playbook. "Let ALL…

  3. Lazy Gardens on Consultants Can’t Order!September 18, 2026

    Part of the job of a sales director is to TRAIN the unit, right? I also fault Mary Kay for…

  4. Lazy Gardens on There Is No 50% ProfitSeptember 18, 2026

    If they taught IBCs how to keep standard business accounts with regular it would be clear real soon that they…

  5. BP on There Is No 50% ProfitSeptember 17, 2026

    FTW wins lawsuit against Amway for deceptive business practices. Mary Kay, you may be next! No wonder Ryan is scrambling.…

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