#mary kay

[lovelyskirts]

I LOVE THIS ONE SO MUCH AS SHE’S SO LOVELY, BEAUTIFUL, GORGEOUS, HEAVENLY, SMART, ELEGANT, HANDSOME, AND PRETTY IN PINK!!! 💕💕💕 This is so lovely, pretty, gorgeous, elegant, heavenly, smart, and beautiful!!! 💕💕💕 I LOVE THIS ONE SO MUCH!!! 💕💕💕 She’s looking SO LOVELY, BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT, HEAVENLY, SMART, GORGEOUS, AND PRETTY IN PINK!!!! 💕💕💕 She’s wearing a very lovely, pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, heavenly, smart, elegant, and handsome pink accordion pleated skirt with very lovely and pretty pockets 💕💕💕 a very lovely and pretty buttoned pink floral blouse 💕💕💕lovely dress shoes, very lovely updo 💕💕💕 and very lovely and pretty Mary Kay makeup. 💕💕💕 The flowers surrounding her make the look so lovely and pretty. 💕💕💕 She would pair this with a very lovely and pretty pink clutch, pocketbook, and makeup bag, making the look very, very lovely and pretty. 💕💕💕 She would wear this every year on Valentine’s Day, as she loves the color pink and she loves floral outfits and would pair this with a very lovely pink clutch, pocketbook, and lovely pink makeup bag by Mary Kay along with very lovely pink and red flowers, making this look so lovely, pretty, beautiful, elegant, and smart. 💕💕💕 She’s looking so lovely, beautiful, elegant, gorgeous, heavenly, smart, and pretty in pink and I love this so much!!! 💕💕💕

#makeup #lovelymakeup #lipstick #skirt #prettyinpink #lovelypockets #marykay #pretty in pink #very pretty #pretty #lovelypink #lovely #beautiful #wonderful #gorgeous #mary kay #lovely mary kay lipstick #very lovely #oh i love this #elegant #classy #elegance #lovelypinkfloralblouse #lovelypinkpleatedskirt

[thirstghosting]

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[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Grocery shopping for the next couple of weeks is done. I made an order from Walmart and as soon as it was brought to me I realized I needed like five or six more things. So I had to go back out. Then since hubby is at work I had to bring everything in myself which is just exhausting. I think I am owed a nap.

My sister asked what I wanted for Christmas and it was pretty hard because I really have everything I need. I asked for more bedding and I've had my eye on some Firefly glass bracelets. I see the ads for Nogu constantly on here. I've been looking at the bracelets there and of course the more I look the more ads they send me. It's just their bracelets are fairly expensive and I'm so afraid that I'm going to spend the money and then they are not going to look like the ones in the pictures. I really want the green glow in the dark glass. So I found one on Etsy that was half the price and my sister ordered it. She also ordered us some monogram sheets and a bunch of bedding that just arrived today and I haven't even had the energy to open it up.

However she had also sent me something much earlier in the month that we had had a hard time getting delivered because neither one of us were home whenever you UPS came by. I started getting really curious about it because she said it was something very special that she saw it and thought of me. Well. , , it was delivered yesterday and oh boy...... I kind of felt like someone had given me a leg lamp. It was a set of super heavy Green Glass candelabras with dangling beads coming off the sides. And in the candelabras were these electronic candles that supposedly had their own remote control for that controlled how they flickered. It was the biggest ugliest monstrosity I think I have ever seen. And I guess she thought of me because it was Green and the Green Glass is very pretty but oh my God........ it's hideous. And I'm not even sure what the remote control is supposed to do we got the candles to turn on and that's about it.

They are so unbelievably heavy I guess if I could swing them they would make a great self-defense weapon. That's about the only good thing I can say for them.

But she is the only family I have and it is a thought that counts so I'm glad she was thinking of me.

Tomorrow I am going to go and send off my final Christmas present Period I was able to get two of my closest friends And my sister Personalized tumblers from this place that does it locally. For my other friend who Is usually In much more need of groceries, I sent a gift card from Walmart and she was able to get herself an air fryer and a few groceries with it. So that made me happy.

Tuesday I'm sitting up a table at the only coffee shop in town where I happen to know the owner fairly well. I'm trying to sell off these dozens upon dozens of extra Mary Kay cosmetics I ended up with.

I had ordered some of them for a teacher that I work with but when I had to discipline her absolutely hateful and disrespectful son who told almost every teacher on campus---- including her --'to shut up and go to hell.

I don't know what he told her about me but suddenly she did not speak to me anymore,, & hasn't spoken to me in the last year.

So of course she was unwilling to purchase all the Cosmetics she had actually ordered from me once they came in. *sigh*

Also last year I had to order $300 worth of cosmetics in order to keep my status as consultant. But then I just ran out of the energy to go out and sell the stuff. Most days I just want to go home and go to bed I don't want to track down any clients I don't want to give makeovers I just want to sleep. So anyway I'm trying to make whatever I can offer them and selling them cheap as stocking stuffers monday. Going to try to drag my carcass out of bed early and catch the morning Rush of people and I am so hoping I can sell a few things just to get them out of my hair.

#teaching #mary kay #christmas cheer #gift giving

[federer7]

Mary Ann and Mary Kay 1976

Pnoto: Joseph Szabo

#Joseph Szabo #1976 #Mary Ann #mary kay

[robindavis]

Think Christmas! Visit my site & use Robin Davis as Rep. Start buying your Christmas presents now. There's a Mary Kay product for every one on your list. You can buy online from the privacy of your own home with out having a Mary Kay party.

#mary kay #Christmas

[barbielore]

I already thought the series of Avon tie-ins was pretty bizarre, but it turns out Barbie is not just a door to door saleswoman for a "direct sales" company that may or may not have a dubious history.

(And y'all thought Earring Magic Ken was the only MLM in the Barbie line!)

Mary Kay Star Consultant Barbie dropped in 2003 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mary Kay multi-level marketing scam company.

Sorry if I sound harsh here. Multi-level marketing companies prey on people (Mary Kay tends to target women specifically) by promising them the dream of working from home and being their own boss and earning bank that way. Or maybe just getting a wholesale discount on things you were going to buy anyway! And if you refer a friend, you get passive income.

Mary Kay specifically offers additional perks such as distinctive pink cars for their high level Sales Consultants. High level in this case meaning that they are making the most sales, and the people they have referred are making sales.

Most people who take part in multi-level marketing companies lose more money than they make, by a significant margin. They are pressured into spending money to build up an "inventory" by their "upline" (the person who referred them) in order for that person to make commission from their downline's orders.

Mary Kay actually closed in Australia in 2020, so you don't tend to see those distinctive pink cars around anymore.

For more information about Multi-Level Marketing and Mary Kay, consider looking at MLMtruth.org or the Pink Truth blog, for Mary Kay related information.

#barbie #barbie history #multi level marketing #pyramid schemes #mary kay #pink truth

[softgaycontent]

Please share everything you know about MLMs I love learning things

Thank you for asking! I’ll start with a TL:DR for everyone: Never join an MLM. Over 99% of participants LOSE money (and time! And friends!). 

A Multi-Level Marketing Company (MLM), also sometimes called Direct Selling, is essentially a barely-legal pyramid scheme. Sales reps can either make money by selling a product or by recruitment of new sales reps.

MLMs make money off of people joining the MLM, even if those sales reps never sell anything, because the sales reps have to buy the product from the company before they can re-sell it. Therefore, they focus a LOT on recruitment (pyramid scheme). 

Some famous MLMs you may have heard of:  Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife, Avon

We can prove the 99% Lose Money number pretty easily. If you are to only learn one fact to teach others, then look up Amway (the biggest MLM)’s Income Disclosure statement, which they publish themselves, on their own website. Screencap below:

This is PRE-business expenses that sales reps pay out of pocket, and still the average annual GROSS income made by the TOP 10% of the company is LESS than minimum wage. After expenses, you can see yourself how almost everybody loses money. (The money people lose goes to the ppl at the VERY top of the company; it’s not like when a normal small business fails.)

Below the cut is a lot more info, although not close to all I have collected.

Screencap summary of Amway's Income Disclosure:

Half of the TOP 1% made less than 55K pre-expense; studies show even they generally LOST money, or made very very little after expense (the top 0.5% actually makes any money, and the 0.05% make a LOT of money)

The TOP 10% earns, on average, LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE ($15K), with less than half of the TOP 10% making over $4.6K PRE-EXPENSES

Less than half of the TOP 50% makes more than $631 A YEAR. PRE-EXPENSE.

(Also, they cut the bottom 1/3 out entirely, so the 50% referenced is 50% OF the top 2/3. I’m actually OK with this, as long as it’s acknowledged, for better reporting. The bottom 1/3 were “inactive” and possibly not trying to participate in sales. The top 2/3 still sucks.)

I made a very sloppy visual to restate the data, in case it helps anyone:

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Another example is the Mary Kay public income disclosure [for Canada] (another very popular MLM). 

Again, pre-expense, though also pre-retail sales (more in paragraph below)

The top 0.05%(!) makes average commissions of $124K

The level below that, Independent Sales Director, only 1.7% of the company, makes less than Canadian Minimum wage in commissions

98% of the company, very clearly, makes anywhere from $0 per year, to at most an average of $206 DOLLARS A YEAR (pre-expense, pre-sale)

Mary Kay works a little differently than Amway, where once you purchase a product, MK truly does not know or care what happens to it at all. If all of these people actually sold all the products they bought, it’s possible they made supplemental income, but data shows that most LOSE money on actual sales.

Let’s focus on Mary Kay for a moment, because their structure means the ONLY money the company ever receives was given to them BY their sales reps. So they’re easy to follow.

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Why do sales reps lose money on sales?

The market is oversaturated. They have 3.5 MILLION reps trying to sell the same product* - meaning they either can’t sell, or they have to greatly discount the product

Many MLM products are more expensive than the same product elsewhere

They constantly refresh their line of products, so the inventory reps already have is now worth less and harder to sell

Sales reps must buy a minimum amount of new product each month to keep certain perks, even if they haven’t yet sold their old product (min $225, with much higher amounts sometimes necessary to keep status)

*What makes MLMs legal (thanks to lobbying, mostly) is that they HAVE a product, which sales reps buy from the company. I’m careful not to call these people employees, as they are technically independent consultants, and thus don’t receive employee benefits... like a guaranteed income, or healthcare, or anything. If you google “Mary Kay employees”, you will find data on their ACTUAL employees, who do actually make money. This is clearly not the case for their sales reps (table above). Mary Kay has about 5K ACTUAL employees, and 3.5 MILLION sales reps. 

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So how do sales reps make ANY commissions?

If you convince people to join Mary Kay, MK will give you a cut (commission) of what they spend at the company on product

Since this is the main way to make money, reps are incentivized to recruit as much as possible

They are also incentivized to LIE about how much money they’re making, so people will stay with the company. I’ve read stories of reps renting a fancy car from time to time to convince the people below them that they’re making money

Clearly, thanks to the income disclosure, we can see that they aren't making much money on commissions, either

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How are sales reps buying more product if they lose money being in an MLM?

Reps are encouraged to dip into their savings, with the promise of a greater payout later. If they don’t have any, they can open Mary Kay CHASE VISA card, and charge all the products they will never re-sell to it

Many people end up in heavy debt

Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t track what they’re spending vs earning until it’s far too late

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What else do reps lose?

Time: Selling is actually a very small part of the business. A lot of time is spent FINDING people to sell to, organizing classes, restocking inventory, recruiting new members, traveling, going to conferences, and more. 

Mary Kay’s motto is, “God First, Family Second, Job Third”, to imply that this is something you can pick up part-time, but that’s simply not true

Relationships: Most people try to sell to and/or recruit their friends and family first, which can put a strain on relationships. Additionally, due to debt and/or need to borrow money to buy more products, many have damaged relationships with those close to them, including their spouses, who share the debt.

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How else does Mary Kay make money?Don’t worry, it’s not all from sales reps buying their products! (Sarcasm. Please worry.)

Website + ability to process credit cards: This is essentially an annual membership fee - to access the MK website to buy their products (to re-sell), or to take credit cards as payment, you pay an annual amount to Mary Kay

Business Cards: More petty costs

Conferences: Sales reps are greatly encouraged to pay to attend sales conferences to learn more about how to be a great salesperson. (BONUS: you will encounter many cult-like tactics here, to keep you IN the MLM)

Jackets: Congrats! You’ve been promoted and you are now permitted to wear the Red Jacket! It costs $100. If you get promoted to NSD(?), you get to wear a fancy suit that changes every year and costs $1,000 each year!

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How else does Amway make money? Bonus because they are egregious

Sales Reps replacing everything they own: Amway sells a LOT of different things. How can you sell anything if you haven’t tried it? If you really want to succeed at Amway, get rid of EVERYTHING you own that Amway also sells. Make sure everything you own is sold by Amway (people do actually follow these instructions! Cult-like tactics are used)

Training Materials: They make a lot of money off of selling training materials to their sales reps. Aren’t making money? It’s because you don’t WANT to succeed, clearly, if you aren’t buying all the training materials you can get your hands on

Haha maybe more than you've bargained for. I wrote this all at once late at night, but I'll look it over later to check for any potential errors and link more sources.

#multi-level marketing #economics #infodump #mary kay #amway

[kittyfuckincheshire]

💄AWESOME BEAUTY PRODUCTS💄

I got this set from Mary Kay and I loved it I would recommend it to anyone who has sensitive skin as well as rosatia it works great! The card on the side is my sales representative I definitely recommend her!(sorry the cards blurry)

Her name is Elisabeth hennett call/text 704-201-9482 you can also find here at [email protected] or marykay.com/Elizabethhennett .

I hope you like her and her products as much as I do!

#Mary kay #beauty products #independent beauty sales director #Facial set #botanicals

[shyrtless]

This months promotions I’m running 5% off all orders, 10% off all orders over $50, 15% off all orders over $100, 20% off all orders over $125, 25% off all orders over $150, and free shipping on all orders over $200. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. If you want to pamper yourself don’t hesitate to reach out and we can do an individual or group consultation where you get to try stuff for free and we get to have a lot of fun. If you host a Mary Kay party for me in person or virtually there are special discounts that will be ran specifically for you and some special promos for your guests. There are also excellent men’s products so guys don’t hesitate to reach out. Also the holidays are coming soon why not grab some excellent gift products for special people in your lives.

#selling #selling stuff #mary kay #buy from me #self employed #self improvement #Mary Kay consultant #i need money

[coulsonlives]

I can't believe I haven't posted this before, because this video is everything. Such a good examination of MLMs! It goes into what makes them cults, the magical thinking, the survivorship bias, all the manipulation, etc.

#it immediately sucks you in lol #there's a two-part video on the secret too and i loved it #mlm #mlms #antimlm #anti mlm #cults #cult #thought control #scentsy #amway #avon #mary kay #herbalife #younique #arbonne #isagenix #primerica #doterra #tupperware #capitalism #manipulation #brainwashing #magical thinking #survivorship bias #youtube #james jani #Youtube

[spockvarietyhour]

Mary Kay Cosmetics queen pioneered the evening sales party, 1982 [TPL Archives]

#We went from V Neck to 1980s fashion in 6 years #1980s #1982 #Mary Kay #cars #vehicles #photography #Hide and Queue

[asundra]

Check it out. You might find a new favorite. Check out the fragrances, they are amazing. And a great Mother's Day gift.

Let me know if you find something new you love. Thanks.

#Mary Kay #My MK Life #Makeup #Beauty #Hands #Love

[sjplutamarykay]

My favorite Mary Kay product I own and use every time I bathe is the Cleansing Brush. It did cost me a pretty penny but SO WORTH IT! Did you know that if you wash your face with just your hands, you're actually not getting as clean? I know you're probably thinking: "I can just buy one at Dollar Tree!" You know it won't work as good and you'll have to keep replacing it every time it goes dead. Stuff adds up fast and nothing at Dollar (and a quarter) Tree is exactly a dollar. You can buy it from my site but not directly from me yet, I'm working on it!

#skincare #beautiful #beauty products #skin products #mary kay ash #mary kay #cleansing

[metztlistudio]

#Mary Kay #photografy #Estilo #film photography #cosméticos #fotografía #Moda #Belleza #méxico #cdmx

[ninaemsaopaulo]

Sim, concorrente da Avon.

#blog #Mary Kay #GKay

[the-hermosa-noche]

#nuevo leon #vive mexico #sadgirl #soledad #autoestima #cosas de la vida #stay classy #good vibes #gold hour #happy 2022 #august 2022 #agosto #mary kay #tichy #monterrey #viva la revolution