When you’re grinding away at the Mary Kay “career ladder,” they tell you to just get through DIQ and everything is smooth sailing after that. Gathering up all of your recruits and conning them all into ordering on the right Read more…

A reader of Pink Truth shares this story of her mother, who has been in Mary Kay for 25 years. For all those former Mary Kay consultants who lost money and were told they didn’t try hard enough or weren’t Read more…

Written by Parsonsgreen Lacey Bradford is a Mary Kay sales director who submitted for DIQ ten years ago. On one of her anniversaries, she posted about how Mary Kay had changed her life.  She was able to quadruple her yearly Read more…

Written by A Mary Kay Husband As much as I love my wife, I truly resented the magnitude of the pressure she was under to perform the Mary Kay marketing plan. To do her sales job with this cosmetics company, Read more…

Failed former Mary Kay sales director Renee Pirtz decided to put in her two cents on one of our threads. You see, it’s easy to sell Mary Kay products. All you have to do is try. As she says “Yes Read more…

Written by Char Sometimes I don’t think people completely understand why MLM is a scam. Not because the person is dumb, but because the rhetoric has been repeated so many times by con artists, that the public accepts it as Read more…

I always find it sad when Mary Kay ladies don’t realize they’re in a multi-level marketing company. They’ve been taught that MK is “direct sales” or “dual marketing” or “social selling”…. but certainly not MLM. Even Wikipedia knows that Mary Read more…

How many of you felt (or feel, if you’re still in) the sting of the holiday open house failure in Mary Kay? Your upline insisted that you order a ton of Christmas products. After all, they’re going to sell out Read more…

When your Mary Kay unit misses production, what do you do? Sales directors are required to have a minimum of $4,500 in wholesale orders from the unit each month. If your unit orders less than that, you’ve “missed production.” Mary Read more…

Written by SuzyQ I secretly love it when directors have a “good” month. In my former wannabe area, we competed for silly little prizes from the dollar tree in contests for highest monthly production and most recruits. It was terribly Read more…