I was doing some research and happened across Mary Kay’s corporate website in Ireland. It was interesting to see the differences (or lack thereof) there. For one, they don’t tout 50% profit. It is “up to 40%” there.

Mary Kay Inc. held its first in-person cult indoctrination session in two years! It was Leadership Conference, and it was held in Atlanta. This is where all sales directors and national sales directors gather for “training” and motivation. The event Read more…

The key to understanding MLM is to look behind the curtain. It is one big fraud being perpetrated by the owners, executives, and pyramid-toppers for their own personal benefit. In Mary Kay, national sales director (NSD) is the highest position Read more…

NSD…. the elusive dream. Almost no on gets there, despite so many who are actively working, trying, and doing all the things they were taught would lead to success. You only get to NSD with the right combination of luck, Read more…

If you’ve been in Mary Kay, you know that friendship is just an illusion. They talk about “my Mary Kay girlfriends” and “doing life” with their forever friends that they met through MK. I experienced this myself. My sales director Read more…

Mary Kay has a new disclaimer in Applause magazine. You know… the publication MK has been doing for decades that has all the numbers for the NSDs and the top earning directors. Except they switched it up earlier this year. Read more…

If women in Mary Kay told the truth about the “opportunity,” they’d never recruit anyone. The truth is that it’s not about selling products, it’s about recruiting. Very little of the products that are ordered are actually sold to customers. Read more…

One of our favorite Mary Kay friends, Chelsea Claytor Adkins, has taken a social media break for the last couple of months. She’s appeared in the posts of others, but her Instagram feed has been dead for two months. Chelsea’s Read more…

How exciting! Jamie Taylor finally made it to NSD after finding recruits to push people through to DIQ, helping to fund initial inventory purchases to get enough production, and pushing women to pay their way to director and car driver. Read more…

I found an interesting Instagram account called Pleasantly Persistent. There are some great posts about why MLM (and Mary Kay in particular) is terrible. This one was so spot on!