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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 (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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Inventory & Selling

I Can’t Book a Facial

Posted on November 14, 2022

What do you do about the reality that you can’t get anyone to have a Mary Kay facial? When you haven’t sold anything in months? Possibly you could accept reality… that Mary Kay is a scam as a business.

Pink Truth Critics

Pink Truth Spreads Lies

Posted on November 11, 2022

On a recent thread in a Mary Kay sales director Facebook group, women were complaining about MK Inc. cracking down on income claims. Basically, consultants and directors aren’t allowed to make income claims of any sort, because it’s such dangerous Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

How Do Women Get Sucked Into Mary Kay?

Posted on November 10, 2022

Written by SuzyQ Okay, so here’s the thing… So many people ask the question… how do women get sucked into MK and why do they stay? Easy. Most of us do not get the recognition we crave in our everyday Read more…

Failure in MLM

My Appointments Don’t Hold

Posted on October 31, 2022

Poor Nancy S. North, Mary Kay sales director. She has been on the MK hamster wheel as a director since 1983. Yes, that’s 39 years. And her goal according to her website is to become a national sales director in Read more…

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…

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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. Destiny Angel on Some of Us Actually Like ItSeptember 25, 2026

    Everytime (sic) I read Pink Truth I wonder if any of you ever actually enjoyed Mary Kay. I'm not sure…

  2. Pinkiu on Some of Us Actually Like ItSeptember 25, 2026

    Clearly you are not in any director groups or you'd understand. You are using MK as a hobby. Perhaps you…

  3. Data Junkie on Mary Kay Hides Real ResultsSeptember 25, 2026

    Here is a summary of MKC's business plan: "Fool customers into thiking they are business owners so they order way…

  4. Frosty Rose on Mary Kay Hides Real ResultsSeptember 25, 2026

    From the director level all the way up to corporate, it is painfully obvious which directors are buying minimum production…

  5. Data Junkie on Magic Words to Help You RecruitSeptember 24, 2026

    You are absolutely right about the educational opportunity. But notice, I mentioned this is for strangers. Educating strangers is likely…

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