Written by Parsons Green Codie Nelson has been a Mary Kay consultant for two years and has lost her spark. She has spent thousands of dollars on inventory and trying to get leads and nothing is working. She cannot get Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose Since the beginning of time in Mary Kay, sales directors have “sold the sizzle” of “success” with monthly newsletters. These fluff pieces serve the dual purposes of recognizing top “producers” (read: orderers) and shaming the lazy Read more…
Written by Rachel I recently read a quote from a site promoting an MLM: To recoup your initial $570 costs, focus on enrolling two distributors into your downline and then help them also enroll two people each. This is the Read more…
Written by Francine I was a Mary Kay consultant for two years and it financially devastated our family. We literally declared bankruptcy and I humbly and ashamedly want to express that we NEVER, not in ten million years, thought we Read more…
When you start to become awakened to the truth about Mary Kay, you may double down on the idea that there is a “right way” to do Mary Kay. Especially if you are a sales director, you need to justify Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose A story recently surfaced in my Facebook memories. I wanted to share it, not because it’s a unique experience, but because it’s all too common in the hustle-culture farce that is multi-level marketing in general and Read more…
Reader Bill shares his experience with Mary Kay. His wife put his family in debt with Mary Kay, and the lies and financial wreckage eventually led to the end of their marriage. Everything on this website encapsulates my story. I Read more…
Written by Parsonsgreen Carrie is a two time sales director in the Jamie Taylor National Area underneath Taylor McKnight. (Two time means she was a director, lost her unit because she didn’t make production, and then became a sales director Read more…
Written by Parsonsgreen Anastasia Syzmkowski is a second line director in the Jamie Taylor national area underneath Megan Coleman. In 2021, she had promoted herself to Cadillac Sales director. However, she had lost it by the time Jamie had her Read more…
Written by Carolyn A former director’s story of her work never being good enough for success. After devoting 10 years to MK and doing “whatever it took” to keep the unit afloat and move up, she had nothing to show Read more…
The consultant has to pay for the Great Start Qualified Order and stay active. For how long, exactly? A year?…
Well written. Great analogy. I hope we can get enough info out into the world to help stop the madness.…
In fairness to those who have been duped by MLMs, the founders of these systems have been fine-tuning the endless-chain…
All of this is true but Mary Kay is not the only company that uses these kind of psycological techniqes…
That's disgusting 🤬 I'm glad you were able to keep your relative from being played for a sucker.