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Mary Kay Directors are fond of telling potential recruits that in Mary Kay, you make 50% of everything you sell.

While it’s true that the suggested retail of MK products is double what the Consultant buys the product for from the Company, before you get too excited about that 50% “profit,” you need to be aware of a few things: Read more »

We have obtained the full complaint filed by Mary Kay against Touch of Pink Cosmetics and owners Amy and Scott Weber.

Here is the entire 71 page complaint, in pdf form.

Mary Kay Inc. v Amy L. Weber, Scott J. Weber, and Touch of Pink Cosmetics

Mary Kay Inc claims that Amy Weber sold Mary Kay products on eBay and thus violated her Mary Kay Beauty Consultant Agreement. Mary Kay Inc. issued several “pleas” for Amy Weber to stop selling on eBay and when she didn’t, Mary Kay Inc. terminated her Mary Kay Consultant Agreement. Read more »

Women’s Wear Daily is reporting today that Mary Kay Inc. filed suit Wednesday against a former Consultant.

Mary Kay Inc. is suing Touch of Pink Cosmetics, a Mary Kay liquidator and reseller of Mary Kay products, for Trademark infringement.  Their website is touchofpinkcosmetics.com

You can read the details of the filing at the link below:

Mary Kay Inc. vs Weber et al

Mary Kay Ash founded the Company on the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”So let me ask you this: Do you like being lied to?

You see, a lot of women who were in Mary Kay had a big problem with the fact that they had to tell little and not-so-little lies just to get appointments or recruits. For instance…

• We found ourselves calling customers and telling them we were in a contest or our Director had challenged us to do 30 faces in 30 days. Yet we knew we weren’t. We knew that it was just a script; a gimmick to get our customer to hold a class with some new people so we could increase our customer base and maybe get a new team member.
• We told potential recruits that it only cost $100.00 to join Mary Kay. We knew that technically this was correct, but that our recruits would be “encouraged” to purchase large inventory packages after they signed that agreement.
• We knew that when we invited guests to meetings that it wasn’t just about having a “girls’ night out” or trying out the latest Mary Kay products. We knew our Directors were going to do a marketing presentation, just as they did every week, with the intent of getting our guests to sign up as a Consultant.

Is it any wonder that we dreaded calling our customers? Is it any wonder that we felt just a little bit dishonest?

Every so often, I get an email from someone who sent product back to Mary Kay years ago and now wants to know if there is any way they can sell Mary Kay again.

It was made abundantly clear by the Directors in my area that if you sent any products back to the Company to take advantage of the 90% buy back that you could NEVER be a Consultant again. But is that true?

The Consultant Agreement states the following:

Consultants who return merchandise to Company are not eligible to rejoin Mary Kay as a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant.

That seems pretty straight-forward. Read more »

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This little falsehood was repeated often by Directors years ago. I don’t know if it is still repeated, but Mary Kay Inc. set the record straight on this one years ago.

One thing that irritates me about Mary Kay is that they train their consultants to get new customers by offering prospects a “free facial”.

First of all, a facial is a procedure that is performed by licensed and trained aestheticians. You know: those people who are trained and licensed to take care of skin.
The “facial” that a Mary Kay consultant wants to “give” you is simply a face washing session designed to sell you the products. Period.
And YOU do the washing. She just teaches you how. And I use the word teach lightly as well, since most consultants know very little about the products, in my experience, and are simply sitting there spouting off facts on the cleanser or moisturizer you happen to be applying and assuring you it is better than anything out there.
Second, if you consider wasting at least an hour of your time and being exposed to some pretty strong-arm sales tactics free, then go for it. Me…I’ll just say no and run.

Why this company and its reps are allowed to call their little selling appointments facials is beyond me. It’s very misleading.

Our members were honored to be interviewed for a story by Sarah Wyatt in the Women’s International Perspective (WIP) in June 2007.

The article examines the effect of Mary Kay Inc’s expansion into countries like China and India.

Here’s a link to the article:

Mary Kay Global Expansion Raises Hope, Concerns

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First of all, you could sell $200,000 of Mary Kay this year and you wouldn’t earn a car.

Second…notice how I said “earn?”

Those cars aren’t free. And you don’t earn them by selling tons of products. Read more »

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A common misconception of new Consultants, and the public in general, is that Mary Kay Inc. gives out Pink Cadillacs to members of their sales force who sell lots and lots of products.

Wrong!

You don’t earn the use of a car because you have sold thousands of dollars of product to customers. Read more »