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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
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    • Mary Kay Sales Director Agreement
    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
    • NSD Compensation Chart
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    • Business Opportunity Rule
    • Mary Kay NSD Emeritus Guide
    • Applause Magazine (US)
    • Applause Magazine (Canada)
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Failure in MLM

Mary Kay Makes the FTC’s Penalty Offense List

Posted on October 27, 2021

I think we have Truth in Advertising to thank for this one! This week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to over 1,100 multi-level marketing companies notifying them that future false claims about their money-making opportunities could result Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Mary Kay is Suing Pink Truth

Posted on October 22, 2021

LOL! No Mary Kay is NOT suing Pink Truth. Mary Kay Inc. has never had any communications of any sort with me, not through their lawyers or anyone else. Oh wait… there was that time that a Mary Kay upper Read more…

Failure in MLM

My Virtual Open House Was a Bust

Posted on October 21, 2021

What a shame! You join Mary Kay “to reconnect with people” and suddenly they think all you want to do is push MK on them. I wonder why that would be? So poor Amanda wants this Mary Kay support group Read more…

Failure in MLMSales Directors

Cindy Mac Failed in Mary Kay (and you can too!)

Posted on October 19, 2021

Imagine devoting more than 30 years of your life to Mary Kay, and still not getting to the top. Cindy Machado Flippen doesn’t have to imagine. She has lived it. For 30 years she has been grinding… trying to get Read more…

Lawsuits

Mary Kay Inc. Sues Jennifer Bickel Cook

Posted on October 18, 2021

Last week Mary Kay threatened to sue Jennifer Bickel Cook for writing a tell-all book about her time working for Mary Kay Ash and the Mary Kay Museum and Mary Kay Foundation. They made good on the threat on Friday. Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Pink Truth Is Full of Hate

Posted on October 15, 2021

The Mary Kay ladies get so bothered by Pink Truth. They’re busy saying that we are telling lies and are full of hate, all the while they’re hating on us and telling lies about us. Yesterday in one of their Read more…

Lawsuits

Mary Kay Suing Former Employee Over Tell-All Book

Posted on October 14, 2021

Mary Kay Inc. is nothing if not petty and controlling. And they’re awfully litigious. Remember all the lawsuits against women who were trying to sell the thousands of dollars of products they purchased from MK? It didn’t matter to MK Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

A Mary Kay Sucker

Posted on October 13, 2021

I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I think of the people MLM recruiters set their sights on, I think of them as “suckers.” Defined as…. a gullible or easily deceived person. Let’s be honest: they’re not looking for Read more…

Failure in MLMQuitting Mary Kay

I Didn’t Earn the MLM Trip (and My Life Didn’t End)

Posted on October 7, 2021

I found this last week on Facebook, written by a woman who was “successful” in Xyngular (a nutritional supplement MLM). She’s been in their “presidents club” for years. Think of this like Mary Kay’s $650,000 unit club, and the sales Read more…

Social Media

What’s Your Favorite Part of Mary Kay?

Posted on October 5, 2021

There are all sorts of ways to use social medial to recruit people into Mary Kay. Probably the most common is flaunting your lifestyle. (It doesn’t matter if you’re buying everything on credit or if you actually have the money, Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

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  1. Frosty Rose on Fortenberry Failures in AugustAugust 26, 2026

    Wowza! So, with a week left in the month, we're up to not quite $1,500 in production per unit, almost…

  2. Dizzy Illusioned on Mary Kay’s Deadly TruthAugust 26, 2026

    Great post. Luckily a good friend broke me out of my fog. I was a kaybot spewing the given rhetoric.…

  3. Parsonsgreen on Fortenberry Failures in AugustAugust 26, 2026

    https://imgur.com/hpC6CIZ https://imgur.com/4BNArrK Here’s an update!

  4. Popinki on Mary Kay’s Deadly TruthAugust 26, 2026

    Great post, Cora. Very wise and insightful.

  5. MSGTK on Fortenberry Failures in AugustAugust 26, 2026

    At least your fast food employer pays their share of SS and maybe gives you free food and tuition assistance.…

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