The Dark Side Of Mary Kay Cosmetics 

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A Mary Kay rep came to my high school and promised all us graduating students a car back in the day. I told my mom about this fabulous "opportunity" and she said, "Any job that you need to pay to start is not a job, it's a scam!"

It's so funny, I was behind a powder pink Cadillac just yesterday and I told my son "hey look it's a Mary Kay car!" And then I got close enough to read the vanity plate and it said "I don't sell cosmetics I just LOVE this color" I was like omg 😂😂

All these MLMs start off the same. A struggling mom just trying to make it. And then they take advantage of other struggling moms.

Former MK senior consultant here. No lies were featured in this video

My sister lost so much money when she started selling this crap. I believe it was about $10,000 and it was right after she left the US Army. Just another MLM nightmare.

I’m old enough to have been invited so many “parties” just to find out when I got there that it was an MLM sales pitch: Amway, Herbalife, Mary Kay, Melaluca, Pampered Chef, Candle parties, etc. The most insulting part of those experiences was how the company convinced people I knew to monetize their friendships. Whenever that happened to me, I’d do everything I could to extricate myself from those “friendships.”

I got sucked into Mary Kay when I was about 20. I was dying to be a makeup artist and thought it would be a great way to become one while making money on sales too. No surprise, once my friends and family bought all they were willing to I ran out of customers and I was nowhere closer to my goal of becoming a pro artist. All the new “friends” I made pretty much abandoned me as I pulled away from Mary Kay. Fast forward 5 years and I eventually DID become a makeup artist and have been doing it now for 7 years. And I just stay far away from MLM’s now.

i'll never forget trying to make friends in uni and was invited to one of these mary kay evenings with how to do your skincare and makeup. i purchased something because i felt like i had to and then from there the rep kept texting me for more purchases etc. there was a time she called me and i was on my way to go down to my grandads funeral and she was like "but you're not at the funeral yet, lets talk more about your next purchase!" i hung up and blocked her number.

If a company ever describes themself as a family it’s a huge red flag. The company I work for did that and it was awful. Then we got a new boss and all the talk of “family” went away and now everyone is feeling so much better

I was recruited when I was 19. I was really nervous to spend all the money upfront to buy my "stock," but my upline said they'd buy back anything I couldn't sell so that way I was guaranteed not to lose money. After trying for nearly a year and selling three things, I said I was done and asked upline to make good on her promise to buy things back. She refused because the company was in the middle of changing all their packaging so everything I had wouldn't be sellable. I learned later that the company does this regularly so that consultants who are "garage qualified" like I was have to buy a whole new stock. It took me more than a decade and thousands and thousands of dollars to dig myself out of the hole Mary Kay left me in. I was 19 and got talked into something that ruined my 20s and still has significant effects on me two decades later.

Wait, Robert I'm screaming because that's me as one of the dancers at the Mary Kay Conventions!!! At 5:34 that's me on the right on the scaffolding under the word TEAM holding my beautiful flag 💀I did two summer gigs in Dallas with the production company they used to work with. It was honestly a really nice gig dance-wise- decent pay, not too crazy hours, they fed us on convention days, lots of down time, and I did it with a bunch of my friends from university. Hilarious that I did that gig considering how anti-MLM I am now. Once we got thru all the rehearsals and staging portion, they gave us a shit ton of skincare and makeup with different looks for each costume etc. and it was all HORRIBLE lolol I was like I though they were a makeup company?? I didn't put any of the skincare on my face, I ended up using my own foundation since the color match for my pale skin was so bad (it was all dark orange on me), and the eyeshadow and blush had NO payoff at all. Like it was a major struggle to make those eye looks work and actually look different from each other. Alsooo all the music had lyric changes that added in Mary Kay references and we had to learn the new lyrics and lip sync them while we danced lol. I RODE onto the stage on a PICKUP TRUCK in one dance and was a butterfly up in a harness in another like!! Those ladies were obsessed with us any time they ran into any of the cast. It all feels like a bit of a fever dream but I have the leftover Mary Kay products to remind me it was real.

I sold Mary Kay starting around 1991. I hated every second of it because the woman who recruited me was so pushy. I quit about a year later just to get her out of my life!

Ugh. I got recruited and sold MK from 2013-2015. It is so disheartening and so discouraging. I genuinely joined just to make like extra cash as a college student, and I was always at the bottom of my group because I refused to push products or try and recruit a downline. I'm so glad I got rid out and rid of it all. And while they're not the most expensive products to buy, there are so many other brands SO much better and cost-effective. Don't get sucked in for the "simple extra money"

A friend and I were having brunch on the Queen Mary ship in Long Beach. We did not realize a Mary Kay convention was going on. It was an ocean of creepy Stepford wives in pink power suits. We got creeped out and left.

I was HOUNDED by a MK “consultant” in 1987, when I was a poor , naive 18 year old- newly married college student. I eventually caved and took out a bank loan for $500 ($1300 in today’s $). Then, pressured to attend all these conferences, buy tons of “inventory’ (that I eventually had to donate). I HATED everything about it, and failed miserably, costing my family financial hardship. It’s a freaking CULT. Change my mind.

Kristen Dunst was in ths amazing TV series 'On becoming God in Central Florida' playing a wife of an MLM salesman who becomes widowed, realises she is broke and goes on to get revenge on the MLM company it's really good. Feels like your kind of vibe.

Robert, I love how you aren't afraid of saying "i don't know/I don't understand". I work at a university, where everyone thinks they're very smart... I mean, they probably are by some standards, but the amount of ego is insane. You'll never hear someone say they don't know something so openly and I'm also guilty of it. This just kind of hit me in the head. I guess there's this pressure of always knowing everything and if you don't then you have to either pretend you do or try to avoid the conversation. It was so refreshing to see you say "I just don't get what it means." and keep going, like that information isn't that important to you, which in reality it isn't. Love all the content you've been giving us recently. 🖤🖤🖤

My mom got roped into Mary Kay. So did my friends mom, and she got the pink car. Then nobody else in town could sell anything, cuz im from Juneau, Alaska, where there's no roads in/out, so we are very secluded. Then my mom did a jewelry MLM. I'm so glad she didn't get roped into more, she was so miserable during that time. It was after my parents divorce so she was on her own and she struggled so much. It was so hard to listen to her cry after every party she threw, because she was just giving away things and people weren't buying enough. It made me HATE MLM companies. I'm so glad there's an anti MLM community, I've followed Chelsea and Isabella for years now🫶

All my eyes focus on is how the neon sign is cut off... I love you Bert Elsh 😂❤

Bought some MK products from an acquaintance to support her. She asked people to come to her final consultant training on Zoom, which we were told was to provide feedback for her and her trainer. When we logged on, it turned out to be a 60-minute pitch for MK and they tried to recruit all of us to my acquaintance's sales team atthe end. You could see from everyone's faces how uncomfortable we all felt when all of a sudden it turned into a "will YOU support your friend and help her grow her business?" guilt trip attempt. None of us signed up, of course, and the whole thing ended awkwardly.

I was told I would be a perfect Mary Kay rep back in the 90s! I have NONE of the traits it takes to be an MLMer. My husband was like yeah you should do it! Meet new people! Ummmm, I don’t want to meet people. I don’t want to ask people to buy shitty makeup. I don’t want a pink car.

Ugh I worked at a hotel where the pink ladies had their conventions. They always tried to recruit us & although there was no policy, I would tell them it was against hotel policy to get involved in their MLM. They'd says stuff like you can't be happy doing this job😂 yes yes even after 12 years I love the hotel industry with all it's craziness

Every single woman that I ever saw that had one of those pink cars wasn't a nice person. They always walked as if they were better than you. You couldn't talk to them without hearing about Mary Kay and if you said you weren't interested they would immediately stkp talking to you.

"Queen of the Universe" and "Lady Next Door" got me. 😂😂 Thank you for always making me laugh. ❤️

Helllooooo! Yay you're doing Mary Kay! I lost some money to this MLM about 15 years ago. And I still know several people wrapped up in it.

I tried to sell Mary Kay for less than a year. I had some stock, but no one ever wanted items I had on hand. My up-line called me asking to place an order so she could stay at the rank she was. I quit at that moment.

This gives vibes of the “fundraisers” they had us do at school .. my mom always ended up buying most of the chocolate, they show u what u could win but all the actual nice stuff was nearly impossible for any child to do. “Win a trampoline , when you sell 50 boxes of chocolate “ like …I’m 10 you are literally having me go door to door (dangerous) & make 5000 sales? AGAIN IM 10!!!

MLM before people knew about MLM’s.

Girl I got wrapped up in this mess MULTIPLE times 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I'm glad that I finally got out of it and haven't looked back. Such awful, predatory practices 😞

I love that you’re speaking on MLMs and spreading awareness on these toxic scams. Videos like this help people NOT get recruited!

We were taught about MLMs in my business school, but we were taught about how bad it was and how it was something we should avoid at all costs.

My parents were in several MLMs and even used my identity to sign up for spots when I was under 18. They were even featured in a magazine (a photoshoot I was intentionally absent for!) and even have weird pics with Dr. Oz from events. Spent many silent dinners with a MLM call on speaker phone for us all to hear even when I was an adult. MLMs ruin families, relationships and lives. I'm chronically ill and disabled - the amount of products I've been pitched that would cure my incurable illnesses is wild... from family, friends and strangers. All the while my parents couldn't afford the mortgage and my mother had to go back to work after 15+ years at home (not even raising me - she wasn't maternal - I raised myself) while they had an actual business to run. They could have put time, money and energy into their real business but it all went into the idea of success and MLM events and parties while they were financially struggling and close to losing their home. I have many MLM horror stories and got sucked into them as well but got out when I was 17. MLMs are horrible.

When I graduated from college in 1985, I started wearing Mary Kay makeup. I absolutely LOVED it. My skin loved the products, and I could work all day, and my makeup looked exactly like it did when I applied it. One of my friends was selling it, and she got the car etc. But, when Mary Kay died, the quality of the makeup dropped dramatically as far as I was concerned.... so I stopped using any of their products. I think the makeup is similar to Elf's, but so much more expensive!!

Oh I remember Mary Kay, it was my mom's introduction to beauty/skincare while I was getting into make up and k beauty skincare. I remember her being offered a cleanser for 42 dollars as I was looking at the face shop rice cleanser 2 piece set for 18 dollars. It's wild how much of a scam Mary Kay is. I'm so glad I showed her better brands.

My aunt got sucked in by that cult. My mom felt so bad that she gave her $600 to try to help her stay afloat. It never worked out and she ended up losing a lot of money and my mom was out a lot of money as well. Unfortunately, my aunt didn’t learn her lesson. She’s now selling Farmasi. In fact, she’s live on Facebook now 🤦🏻‍♀️

My poor mother was HARRASED so badly by these people. They called the cops on her and got sued over her not selling the products she was supposed to and she told them I can’t do this and tried giving them back but they wouldn’t take it 🤦🏻‍♀️

"Like Avon but not as good" Uugggh, that's made me shudder & not in a good way...

In Brazil Mary Kay is much more appreciated than Avon, Avon is for the poor, Mary Kay is not, basically.

Omg I was LITERALLY bullied into becoming a consultant when I was 18. I had no capacity to sell anything. I was super shy and said no a bunch of times. My friends old sister was so insistent. When I told my friend I really didn't want to do it he was like "How dare you. My sister is so excited about this and trying to have her own business. She will be so disappointed if you don't. You can't just say no". Like, really angry. It ended up costing me a bunch of money and I hated it. Eventually moved interstate and never answered the recruiter calls again.

As a member of the British Compact Collectors Society and a collector myself of vintage cosmetics I’ve read many books on the subject. Mary Kay, Oriflame etc are mlms but people forget that Avon is also an mlm! Very successful and yet the perks are very poor. Their target market? At home mothers. Sadly most of these woman end up out of pocket and in debt because of these companies. The more they are shown for what they are the quicker woman will get wise to them. Well done for highlighting them.

I was a Mary Kay lady for about a year in college. Lost a small amount of money, kind of got my heart broken, moved on to other things. Their skincare made my friends with sensitive skin break out in rashes and the other ladies I answered to kept saying that wasn't physically possible because the products were so pure.

Thank you for covering this, Robert. I was an “independent beauty consultant” on and off three times before I really understood just how toxic it was. And it was only a few weeks ago when it dawned on me I was in a cult. I’m glad you got through it quickly yet accurately, and that I was able to watch the whole thing without going into hysterics.

The worst part of scams is that it sucks in everyone even if they're considered "smart" its really unfortunate that MLMs prey on people

I was almost sucked into the Mary Kay black hole back in 2015 - I was single and had just left my corporate job, and an MK “recruiter” smelled blood. I asked her to give me the contacts of others who worked under her (including those who had left MK so I could determine whether it would be a good fit). She suddenly & mysteriously cut off communication with me. 😮 Hmmm… that seemed a red flag. 😂Thank you for putting together such a well researched video - you articulated precisely my experience - your friend Lindsay from Oregon in the States ❤️

This was great Robert. I am embarrassed to say I was subject to this scheme in the 90’s. It was a low time of my life. I went to Dallas and got to meet Mary Kay I had a good time. At this time I had my own salon and was able to sell the product in the salon. It fizzled out and was a horrible experience. I hope you videos exposing these MLM Pyramid companies and save people from the misery. The only people that gain from this are the very early investors. That being said Robert you look fabulous today. That eye look is amazing with your brown eyes ♥️☮️🖤

Every time one of them says my business I roll my eyes. The eye roll has become a default setting for my brain! 😆 My business 🙄 It can no longer be controlled so if one of them is standing in front of me and drops that line they’ll suddenly discover I’ll never be recruited and I’m the enemy

My niece is like the 2nd highest seller in Monet. She is a millionaire and has bought several homes, etc. She has HUNDREDS of people "under" her and none of them make money like she does. Even after watching her go from having no money to becoming wildly successful, I would still NEVER join an MLM, EVER. I hate what it does to people. I hate them period.

I was a rep and kept plugging along for years recruiting people etc. I didn’t really make much, my recruiters stopped selling, I felt brainwashed into talking up Mary Kay all the time. I finally realized I didn’t even like many of their products! I quit and sold back my product at 60% of what I paid for it. What a relief!

THANK YOU!!!!! I was apart of this commercial cult otherwise known as an MLM and I’m SO glad I got out when I did. This company is super predatory. Thank you for bringing awareness to topics like these! I appreciate it more than you’ll ever know! I am now in school to teach yoga and I have an Etsy shop where I sell my handmade items so I’m getting closer to ACTUALLY owning my own business one day. ❤ much love & light!

For context, the initial "small" investment of $5,000 in 1963 is equivalent to about $50,000 today.

The way they target the latino community makes me so mad. People dont think its an mlm because they've been around forever!

That music over the MLM seminar footage was *chef's kiss*

Omg. When I was in college I went to a Mary Kay party. I was recruited. The recruiters boss got me on the phone, and basically tried to bully me to take out a 10 grand loan. I thought I could just make a couple of non committal bucks on the side. Even when you go the route without the inventory, you still have to purchase x amount to be considered a consultant. Gives me anxiety thinking about it.

The Mary Kay building in Dallas is straight out of the 1970s/80s. You can’t help but imagine ladies in 80s power suits and big hair walking around inside 😂

I'm a rep pushing 58, love the products, hate the business structure! I'm still in to keep the discount for self, give gifts and have the option to sell! No interest in pushy sales, begging for team members or a pink car! Your eye makeup is 🔥🔥🔥

My mom warned me about MK and Avon and pyramid schemes back when I was little. I think our neighbor must have been selling one of them. There was also tupperware and a basket company that were big when I was a kid, but now there's sooooo many more of these. My friend got sucked into some makeup mlm that I'd never even heard of before.

I remember my sister in-law pushing this on me. It was like I could almost not say no to get sucked in. I finally had to be point blank NO. She was always ice cold after that. Over Mary Kay crap. lol

I'm genuinely surprised they're still in business

Robert dragging Mary Kay is the gift I didn’t know I needed today 😭

I swear back in the day everybody and their Grandma sold Mary Kay and not ONE person ever got that pink car!!!!!!

I'll never forget pulling up to a PF Chang's in Dallas on a work trip and seeing way too many pink cars in the lot. Two of us from rural America both pulled back a bit before going in, we were whispering to each other, "are they a cult?" because there were like 100 pink ladies in the restaurant. Ofc MK is sold in rural areas (and it's considered high end, bless em), but no one ever succeeds and neither of us had seen a MK convention before. Our March of Dimes conventions were a little heavy handed too, but we never dressed alike and we were actually doing productive things for society.

I recently got into anti MLM content,it cropped up on my algorithm after watching true crime creators weirdly…and it’s fascinating! It’s mad how people get sucked into the craziness of it all and some of the negative affects it has on their relationships etc, More MLM content please Roberto! 😊

You are spot and on!! I got tricked into going to a Mary Kay cult meeting. When I tell you that these women were scary, I mean SCARY!

I love knowing that your brother edits your videos, because when moments like you scratching your armpit of flubbing your words happen I know he left them in on purpose :')

Robert love these videos!! One of the ways you get recruited is they tell you “hey you are already spending $90 if you join us you can get the products you want in this opening package for only $55 and anything additional you get a a great discount.”Then they convince you how easy it is to sell it. Thanks for these informative videos!!

I got roped into MK when I was young and put a ton of money on a credit card buying a “starter”sales kit with some of each of the makeups and skincare that were out at the time so I had things to sample and preview/display whatever.and never sold one thing, and then they hounded me for years for not coming back to them. They were also super conservative and religious at our sales meetings. They opened every sales person meeting with Prayer and tried to insist I participate, even as a different religion. All sales ladies were expected to dress a certain way, mostly just in black, and no pants, skirts or dresses only, depending on your rank you could wear certain colors or prints. You had to wear heels. And they wanted us to only wear pearls or gold jewelry. And they said they “had” to be real gold or pearls because we couldn’t be going around to clients looking cheap. You were expected to always have on makeup. At all times. Even if you were just running errands. This was emphasized at multiple meetings I went to. Yeah. Their whole thing was awful.

I love listening to memoirs on audiobook, and two I've listened to recently were "Hey, Hun," by Emily Lynn Paulson, about her experience reaching a high level in an MLM, and "Leaving the Witness," by Amber Scorah, about her experience of being in and leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses. Though the worlds surrounding these cult experiences are very different, they bear many striking similarities and I'd recommend both books for a deeper dive. Great video as always, Robert!

My MIL was suckered into trying to sell Mary Kay sometime back in the early/mid 90’s. She ended up being stuck with a *bunch* of inventory, when she went through a drawn out divorce and subsequently stopped selling. I eventually tried several of the products (at zero cost - she invited me to go through and take what a wanted) and I can honestly state that NONE of the MK cosmetics/products it tried were worth a damn.

Robert’s Mary Kay ranks made me cackle so aggressively I choked on the bagel I was eating. For future reference, here are the tiers you can aspire to as an MK consultant. 😂 1. Lady Next Door 2. Diamond Princess 3. Queen of the Universe

I’ve been waiting for this one!!!! I (embarrassingly) did MK for 5 years, they’re awful. I could talk about it forever

I've never used Mary Kay Cosmetics because it always seemed like it was for grandmas. That eye look is gorgeous!!

Their "people" being independent consultants is bad also, they don't get any real benefits. 60 Minutes did a story about a lady who lost everything because she got real sick and got no support of any kind from Mary Kay. She got nothing because she was an independent consultant and they received, at the time the story was done, no insurance. Horrible.

I used to sell Mary Kay. The one thing that turned me off from it was when I kept coming up with ideas to sell products through different websites and social media platforms. EVERYONE kept telling me, "that's not how we do it." I'd suggest comparing MK products with drugstore products, and they'd throw a hissy fit about it because we should only have MK products in our homes. Basically if you weren't a high up representative, don't even think about coming up with new ideas to sell their products. It's like they were holding you back while also saying you need to shoot for the stars.

My now 70yo mom has used MK my whole life. I even tried to get her to use Jordan Samuel skincare but she went back to that cold cream and moisturizer

On your last point, not only would I never jump in defending my non-MLM employer in the comments of anything, we're actually not ALLOWED to wade into that sort of thing. They want the social media team dealing with that messaging, not random employees.

One of my aunts went into credit card debt for buying tons of products she never sold. The way they brainwashed women with the hopes of driving the pink Cadillac is insane. I think we can all say we know someone who got sucked into this MLM

When I graduated high school, my aunt gave me a bunch of Mary Kay make up. I thought I was living the high luxury life. Then came the party request lol.

As a Black woman Mary Kay parties scarred me. They never had my shade range! Always had me looking casket ready and ugly. Gave me anxiety about buying something. Would depress me in high school. I'm 42 and still scared to let anyone do my makeup!

My mom got sucked into Mary Kay back in the 90s, the MLM businesses pretty much target young stay at home moms, especially in the military. Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Avon, all the wives took turns holding parties selling each other stuff. She never made money, never got to go to the conferences, and couldn't sell her remaining products back. She got super lucky that our moving van caught fire when going to a new duty station and she lost all her product and was able to make an insurance claim to get her money back.

In America during the 80’s Mary Kay was huge. It’s crazy that they are still in business.

My mom used this makeup for yeeeaaarrrs. She got my first makeup set from there. Awful awful eyeshadow. I only recently convinced her to stop using their creams and just buy drugstore.

I answered an ad in the PennySaver, yes, thats how old I am. The rep was offering a free facial. This was in the mid 90's. I went to the womens house and she basically offered me Mary Kay and washed my face. Later, she asked me to be one of her "models," and I went to a big Mary Kay meeting. You of thought Mary Kay was Jesus, I felt like I was at church and that's when I knew it wasn't for me. But the rep I met never pressured me to sign up. I bought the skin care and some makeup. I had an allergic reaction to the eye shadow and stopped using it.

My mom has sold MK since the 90s. She’s never made significant money but she’s SPENT thousands. I used to love their eye makeup remover until I stopped using it and my eyelashes STOPPED FALLING OUT. It’s a predatory scam.

I had a Mary Kay rep try to recruit me when I was like 18/19 and my mom, who worked at the Chanel makeup counter for 15 years, was literally like “you should do it”

When I was in high school my mom tried to get into Mary Kay because a lady from the church we used to attend was wanting to recruit my mom. I tried some of the products that my mom bought and they weren't good at all. My mom went to a few Mary Kay events but it was too pricey for her to keep up with and when she told the lady from our church that she was backing out the lady looked at my mom in disgust and never spoke to my mom again.

I had a Mary Kay rep come to my apt, to sell me on the product/sales etc. I liked the book as it had good points on how to do make up for face shapes etc, and I still have a lip brush that still works like a dream, and thought their refillable compacts were great. ( this was back in 1983) what really pissed me off was she told me that in order to get ahead and be somebody (her words!!) I really ought to try dressing better... mind you, I had been on my own for over 3 yrs, had my own apt, was employed and was really into alternative anything make up- and was goth/punk before it really hit hard in the US. I looked just fricken fine so..showed her the door. And well, 41 yrs later I am still fricken fine. Thank you Robert, great video!!!!

Oh my gosh, I will never forget the Mary Kay lady coming to our house and chain smoking with my mom while they swatched cosmetics.

My grandma and aunt were in Mary Kay when I was around 8. They ended up buying tons of product sample bundles to use at parties, spent a shitload of money, and then never made their money back. The ended up giving me a couple boxes full of makeup products to play with, and that's how I got into makeup. To this day I still love makeup so much and have a very beautiful, curated collection. MLMs are terrible and predatory, and I'm glad my aunt and grandma were only in long enough to get me a bunch of play makeup and didn't go into debt over it. lol

With an MLM’s their distributors/consultants are the brands target market! That’s what makes MLM’s so awful.

I also have some nostalgia with Mary Kay. My mom didn't sell it, but she purchased the big suitcase size sales kit. It came with all shades & colors for full face make-up & a VHS on how to apply. She gifted it to me & I not only had the best make-up collection in the 90's but also was probably the only one who knew how to properly apply it.

I am glad that you made this video and mentioned a study from Harvard. I was reached out by somebody who I used to know trying to invite me for a pampered chef party and I told him that I don’t support MLM‘s recently. Definitely wanna share this video. Also, Mary Kay make up is what got me to no longer support. MLM‘s, since I know what’s better at the drugstore and prestige make up.

My mom wanted me to sell Mary Kay... The upline people will steal sales from their downline. There os no sale where the consultat isn't recruiting.The starter kit is $150.00 and not useful. You used the phrase "comercial cult" is very accurate.

All those MLM's take advantage of people

Somehow my gullible, socially awkward sister was convinced by two women at a wedding convention to join Mary Kay. She was incredibly uncomfortable with going door-to-door or cold calling people, and didn't have a huge number of friends to pawn the makeup off on. My mom and I bought some things, but in the end, she lost out on hundreds of dollars. This was before Sephora existed in our city, but we still had better drugstore options at Walmart or Shoppers Drug Mart (I'm in Canada). It was a huge waste of her money and a punch to her self-esteem.

There’s a Mary Kay lady in our towns chamber of commerce. 🙄 Years ago when I first moved in with my ex, who was also in the chamber, he had mentioned to me the MK lady really pushing for her son to move in with us. Thankfully, we already had another person planned and I was able to convince him to turn them down. About three months after we all moved in together we heard news that her son had been abusing (I can’t remember if it was meth or heroin) and ended up slaughtering his girlfriend with a katana in their home. This was during lockdown so if we had them move in I 100% would have been home alone when it happened. He ended up confessing to his dad later that day and was arrested, then- if I remember correctly, in an attempt to lure the guards- had somehow set off an alarm and consequently he ended up dying in an altercation with officers. I can’t be certain if she even took a short step away for a couple weeks, but can definitely remember being told she was acting as if absolutely nothing had happened and never said anything about it to anyone so no one even asked. She’s one of the car ladies so I assume the death of her homicidal son would have affected her down line too much to give a second thought to.

$5k in 1963 is equivalent to almost $50k in 2024. Her "struggling" single mom story is a myth.

Your ranking examples sent me "lady next door" 😂😂👏👏💘 great video

Mary Kay smh… I used to get free foundation and face care from my aunt who sold Mary Kay and I always thought the whole idea was pretty weird. The quality of products was pretty poor, especially for the price and my foundation was always off.😂😂 I learned so much from this video, Robert, as usual! Keep them coming!

oh man, my aunt has been a mary kay consultant for DECADES. she goes to the big conference in dallas, texas every year. her house is filled with thousands upon thousands of dollars of unsold products because she only has like five people that actively buy from her. oh, and I always get mary kay products that I do not want or need from her every christmas because she just refuses to just me gift cards or cash . 🥴