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…
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…
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…
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…
The success of multi-level marketing depends on recruiting. Products can’t be retailed to REAL customers in sufficient quantities, so MLMs depend on the recruitment of distributors who buy the products. We know there is a very low level of actual Read more…
Written by Francine I was a Mary Kay consultant for two years and it financially devastated our family. We literally declared bankruptcy and I humbly and ashamedly want to express that we NEVER, not in ten million years, thought we Read more…
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…
Written by SuzyQ I was going to write an open letter to Mary Kay NSDs and sales directors, and I know they read here, but it seemed to be a futile gesture. I wanted to ask them to think, to Read more…
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…
Probably the most frequent challenge I hear to our real-life experiences with Mary Kay Cosmetics (other than “no one held a gun to your head!”) is “Oh, there’s always one bad apple in the bunch. Don’t judge the entire company Read more…
Frosty Rose, I am so sorry for this horrific experience. I haven't had kids but I can very easily imagine…
BRAVO! Dear Friday Critic(s): Please read articles like this. "Director" that just cracks me up. That's a title typically reserved…
And the worst part of it is, if she somehow maxes out all her credit cards and fills up the…
Everything is fake in Mary Kay. The friendships, the opportunity, the facials, entrepreneurship, the business terminology, the retail sales, and…
"Are these really perks of being a Mary Kay consultant, or just more smoke and mirrors to create a false…