Name:Crystal
Are You Active or Inactive?
Inactive
If Inactive, Date You Left MK:
April 1st 2016
Amount of Initial Inventory You Purchased:
1800
How were you recruited? Tell us all the details.
I went to a Mary Kay party and signed up for the discount
Do you have a memorable experience from your time in Mary Kay? If so, please tell us about it.
Yes I grew a lot through Mary Kay, much more confident in myself.
What are you doing now?
I’m a consultant with Neal’s Yard Remedies.
Feel free to include any additional comments here:
My name is Crystal Medina and I live in Southern California. I started my Mary Kay business in Jan. of 2013. I signed up through someone because of the discount. In the beginning, I really enjoyed our weekly meetings until I was belittled and pressured by my director for not meeting my goals (and not supporting hers). I invested a lot into Mary Kay but didn’t have any prior experience with sales and like anyone had my own insecurities, so after a while I noticed it wasn’t as easy as people said it would be. I felt like I was doing Mary Kay 24/7. My whole life became Mary Kay, and as much as I tried, it never seemed to be enough. When I’d go to my meetings and share my struggles my director would compare me with others and would belittle me in front of everyone. I remember walking into my meetings discouraged and walking out, just devastated and embarrassed because I was the example of the one that failed….
As any Mary Kay consultant, I tried ALL the products and had been faithful to my skincare regimen using Timewise for 1 year and Timewise Repair for 2 years. I started to notice brown spots all over my face. I was told, use the spot reducer, now use this and oh add concealer, etc., so I did and it got worse. After almost a year of that crap, I started to have doubts about the products and always wondered why Mary Kay was willing to allow everyone to start off making 50% and directors making more, but when I would ask those questions, I was accused of doubting and being negative. So, I wasn’t COMPLETELY SOLD OUT to their products which made it harder to sell because of my own personal experience.
In April of 2016 I watched a documentary which caught my attention due to a cancer scare. After watching this, I started researching my Mary Kay products! At that time I didn’t know much about chemicals but after A LOT of research (including printing out EVERY SINGLE ingredient sheet from Mary Kay in Touch and googling the ingredients and dissecting the underlying definition of the ingredient) I was deeply disturbed to learn about all the toxic products I’d been exposing myself to. I knew there was no way I could continue to use Mary Kay, let alone sell it.
When I contacted Mary Kay Corporation the lady literally laughed at me when I asked her if the company had any intention of joining the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and that’s when the light bulb went off. I was appalled and felt like everything I was taught was all LIES. Mary Kay is not empowering women, they’re exploiting them, consultants and customers, just to make a dollar!
Integrity means doing the right thing, at all times and in all circumstances so it has become a burning desire to educate people about safe cosmetics and expose companies that are deceiving!
But thank you Mary Kay for teaching me such a valuable lesson in life….
I just got home from Seminar in Dallas, TX. I was trained by some of the finest women and NSD’s in all of MK. Not ONCE did anyone teach to lie to their husbands, hide inventory, pressure people to buy inventory, make “shady” deals, ask people to drink “pink KOOLAID”, etc, etc, etc. It was one of the most uplifting Seminars I have been to. Three diffferent women have overcome Cancer with chemo and radiation that are top sellers who have nothing but love for the company and their sales force. The CEO and the PRESIDENT both spoke and had nothing but eloquent and moral things to say. Just because YOU CHOSE to sign and agreement and YOU CHOSE to buy inventory, doesn’t mean that all of MK is a cult. It is a culture of women helping women. If you got into a bad situation, you could have reported it to MK. Just this past year they broke 800 contracts for unscrupulous practices. This is NOT the MK WAY but people chosing to be unscrupulous under the guise of MK. So don’t blame MK or it’s principles. GROW UP! NO ONE FORCED YOU TO DO ANYTHING. Instead of bashing MK, why don’t learn from YOUR choices and quit crying about it.
No one is crying Kimberly. I find it interesting that you, like so many brainwashed MKers have to spend their energy yelling at people on this blog. You do know that capitalizing words the way you did is yelling, right?
Women are coerced every day to buy gobs of inventory because that is the way Mary Kay works. Directors sit you down and give you completely rational sounding arguments for why you need to keep inventory. The only real reason is so Mary Kay makes money.
When consultants buy inventory from Mary Kay, the company makes money. Period. That is how the company exists: the consultants are the company’s real customers. Yes, consultants can build a customer base. I did. I had over 400 customers when I quit. But it’s MLM.
Kimberly, thanks for your comment. If you are so happy, why are you hear posting mean comments? Shouldn’t you be holding a “skin care” class? Honestly, if you really are inspired by MK, where is the anger that comes through in your post coming from?
So, i doubt anyone from MK will see this, but thus far all I see in the comments as far as pro-MK representation is tantrums and name-calling. All of which makes me even less likely to purchase MK. This is in all seriousness detrimental to your brand equity.