No Negativity Allowed
An old thread from a Facebook group dedicated to MK consultants, but it’s still a fun one! I love the response that sites like Pink Truth are authored by people who didn’t want to work and are wondering why they aren’t millionaires. I’ve got a business that is far more successful (for the last 23 years!) than most NSDs. So I think I’m doing okay. Also, I’m wrinkle free, thank you very much. 🙂
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Man, it really grits me when women perpetuate the whole aging = ickygrossugly nonsense.
And thanks to good genes and being careful about sun exposure, I’ll be wrinkle-free without Mary Kay until at least 70, if my mother and grandmother were anything to go by. Nyah nyah!
Me too. It’s another cudgel to beat down on women, men get to be silver foxes while an older lady is to be pitied at best, mocked at worst.
Do we know if any of these consultants are still in the Pink Fog and involved with MK? As dumb as they sound in their responses, I hope they are out and see that MK is nothing but a scam.
Nicole Hill To address the. Pyramid scheme issue. Mary Kay’s business plan is used and studied in u of the top 10 business schools! We are dual marketing… No middleman between us and the company. Them to you!!
Got to admire the total vagueness of these statements. It’s studied somewhere, perhaps. Except we know it is not in the way that these ladies believe.
And yes, it’s the products to you without a middleman because you are both the middleman and the final customer.
“If you have sold anything, even just 1 eye makeup remover, you have made a PROFIT”…
That has got to be 1 EXPENSIVE eye makeup remover to cover the cost of the initial inventory order. 😆😆
But, even if you ignore the initial inventory order, an estimated $4.50 profit is just not that exciting, even if you capitalize all the letters.
It removes makeup you haven’t even put on yet!
No! Learn the difference between profit and revenue!
“No middle man between us and the company, them to you”.
Ah, so you’re saying consultants ARE the end user/ actual customer?
Good to know.
So glad to know that Noone will loose money in Mary Kay.
Your absolutely correct, pinkpeace. Noone looses a single dime.
(It physically hurt me to type that.)
I’ll play along:
They give good advise everyday on skincare regiments.
I don’t know about that. I’ll have to ask my legal council.
Look at the entire conversation, and how something so ridiculous can sound so plausible. Those ladies are speaking as though everything they say is truth. They believe it, and the others just accept it…..because it sounds convincing, doesn’t it? If you’re in that conversation, the comments sound acceptable.
(Outside looking in) We know MK isn’t dual-marketing. We know that MK is an MLM scam, and that the consultants’ pockets are the primary source of funds for Mary Kay and upline. The ladies in that conversation sound silly to those of us who know the truth now, yet they are taking themselves very serious. They are living a lie, and they don’t even know it.
I especially like the parts where they assume they are better off than everyone else, especially Tracy (lol); they chalk facts up to opinions because those facts contradict what they merely believe; they are dismissive of legitimate information that doesn’t align with what they’ve been told by upline and the scripts-ururers because….indoctrination.
MLM has taught me a lot about how dream-selling cults operate, and their inherent dangers.
The Good Housekeeping seal of approval? Is that still a thing? MK seriously has not moved one bit out of the 1960’s.
The lack of spelling and punctuation and HORRIFIC GRAMMAR……ARGH!
Lydia Wegner I’m not saying some didn’t have bad experiences with MK.
One nearly honest soul there.
But it comes back to the dichotomy that is MLM/ direct sales/ network marketing, you are lured in with bragging about how easy it is to make money.
“The products sell themselves”, “every-one uses X” or “you’ll make money playing at your kitchen table” but when you don’t make money, it’s your fault.
“You didn’t work your business right”, “you wanted free money without working for it” or “you didn’t believe hard enough” nice platitudes to devalue the sense of self and hopefully lure you back into the fold chastened or finally allow the scales to fall from your now disillusioned eyes.
Yes, I hate my lines and wrinkles, and too much in my life tracked away from consistent, conscientious skin care as time wore on. But I made a conscious decision to swear off makeup in my late 20s because it does promote an image that is not the face God gave you and most of us do not need to improve upon God’s Handiwork. Yes, people look much better with makeup, that is not the point. And makeup is not required for a wonderful skin care regimen that would make me feel so much happier with. But that’s not how it worked out, and if my face is ugly, my heart sure isn’t.
My primary influence against cosmetics was at age 12, seeing the horrific animal testing bunnies in their STOCKS so that poison could be easily forced into their eyes.
No, Mary Kay, you have only sullied this world and I despise you for it.