Written by Frosty Rose Pink Truth has reported time and time again how little money Mary Kay sales directors earn. But how did we get to those income figures?  Surely, all those numbers are from grumpy former directors from years Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose and Parsons Green Ah, Leadership Conference. Where the best of the best in Mary Kay, the directors and nationals, gather for three days of fellowship, pageantry, and glamour. With a heaping side dish of body shaming, Read more…

Mary Kay is such a simple business! All you have to do is work the numbers. If you do the activity, you’ll get the results. They always forget to mention that you have to find the women first. They make Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose When I was deep in the Pink Fog, I spent a lot of time at the feet of the “great” Linda Toupin. Her stories of work ethic, of grit and tenacity, and of doing things “the Read more…

I received this email from a relatively new Mary Kay consultant who wanted to share her experience with us. Hello and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to send you an e-mail. I have been a Mary Kay consultant Read more…

I was the lucky recipient of the below email from a woman who won’t reveal her real name. She talks as if she was at NSD level, and yet she gets a lot of the lingo wrong. Hi, Tracy. In Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose Leadership conference, the “exclusive” gathering in January open only to sales directors and above, is always ripe with fodder for Pink Truth. Today, let’s take a peek at what the directors are saying behind closed doors Read more…

Written by SuzyQ Hello again. Did you know that I sent my inventory back to Mary Kay in 2007? (Yes, that was almost 16 years ago!) And that many of the articles on Pink Truth authored by me were written Read more…

I’ve broken down director income before. Out of 9,000 sales directors in the U.S: at least 5,100 make less than $16,800 per year. 3,000 sales directors make between $16,800 and $40,800. The other 900 make more than $40,800. But think Read more…

Written by Frosty Rose and Parsonsgreen Well, folks, Leadership 2023 has come and gone, in all its wannabe-Nashville-cowgirl glory. Conspicuous consumption, dress code violations (more on that entertaining topic to come), and, of course, the opportunity for directors to increase Read more…