A former Mary Kay sales director tells us how booking, selling, and recruiting the way she was taught still did not lead to success. I have been reading your site on and off for the past year. When I first Read more…

Written by Raisinberry Someone once said that there is a little bit of “BS” is in every sales presentation, and they weren’t talking about better service. Perhaps some time ago, Mary Kay’s sales environment and recruiting system might have been Read more…

Written by Raisinberry The days after the Mary Kay seminar year end wholesale buying frenzy are a celebration for some and a painful chest constrictor for most others. The typical director sleeps in on July 1 because of sheer exhaustion Read more…

Do you think it’s only the “bad” women who do bad things in Mary Kay? Those who frontload new recruits, dial for dollars at the end of the month (i.e. get people to order products they don’t need), talk only Read more…

The debate rages on between the “pro” and “anti” sides of the debate about Mary Kay Cosmetics. On one side, we have women who claim Mary Kay has a wonderful opportunity that has enriched many women. Everything in Mary Kay Read more…

Written by MaryKayExploitsWomen Many sales directors in Mary Kay are very hesitant about recruiting personal use consultants. Their excuse is that they don’t want to invest all of their time in training personal use consultants if they aren’t going to Read more…

A former Mary Kay consultant lost money years ago, but is going to try it again and she is going to make money. She will not be “silly enough” or “stupid,” and she won’t have “bad judgment” like Pink Truth Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose A few weeks ago, we looked at how little money sales directors are actually earning, backed by real numbers out of the Jamie Taylor national area. But what about the other half of the equation that Read more…

I am rerunning this piece from October 2015 because it was so, so good. Written by Suzy Q So, we taped hours and hours of painful, humiliating, humbling information about our experiences in Mary Kay, and ABC diluted it down Read more…

One of our readers provided this insight on Mary Kay Cosmetics. MARY KAY IS A SCAM which drives women into debt with their trinkets and labels them “failures” when the real issues are an unworkable, unprofitable business model and manipulative Read more…