Pink, Pink, Pink...

Jace

Jace

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That's right...Mary Kay....cosmetics

Did you ever think about becoming a rep?

or did you/were you?

Or..have a relative or friend that was

And, how was it?
 

Jace said:
Did you ever think about becoming a rep?
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No

However I spent a couple of summers at Utah State in Logan. They rented the campus out to the Mary Kay people for an annual worldwide convention. It was in the dead time between summer and fall semesters.

Bizarre, the place was invaded by thousands of Mary Kay ladies, a fleet of over 100 pink Cadillacs.

Strangest thing was when they held a costume ball. Thousands of ladies dressed as pink hippos and the like... not something easily forgotten.
 
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I wore MK years ago and I know a lady I think she stills sells it but not sure. I don't know any one now that wears it. I know years back this lady I know was really into it and had woman working under her (like a team) and MK furnished her a car but she had to really work to keep the car. It was hard to recruite women even back then to sell MK.
 
charry said:
I use to sell Avon in the 70s, and it’s still popular here now ..
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I didn't sell Mary Kay, but Jafra (same thing). After I found out what my tax refund was after that, I sold out. My manager kept telling me, oh you can write that off on taxes. It was insulting how little I gained after I nearly burned myself out working fulltime and then every evening either having skincare classes or processing orders! Not worth the effort!
 
I literally got trapped into going to a Koscot Cosmetics (a MLM pyramid scheme that started back in the 60's) recruitment event and it was like being kidnapped by a particularly virulent cult group.

We were in an Armory building with the doors locked so nobody could leave. I couldn't even go to the bathroom without someone following me and talking to me through the stall door. I'd get "ganged" up on by two members who would talk until my head was spinning.

I finally found a pay phone and called someone to come get me. Then I stood at the door and yelled until they let me out. I never saw my so-called friend who took me there by telling me we were going somewhere else.

It left me with a horror for any kind of MLM marketing. I will not go to the home "parties", no matter how much I like the hostess. Nope.
 
jujube said:
I literally got trapped into going to a Koscot Cosmetics (a MLM pyramid scheme that started back in the 60's) recruitment event and it was like being kidnapped by a particularly virulent cult group.

We were in an Armory building with the doors locked so nobody could leave. I couldn't even go to the bathroom without someone following me and talking to me through the stall door. I'd get "ganged" up on by two members who would talk until my head was spinning.

I finally found a pay phone and called someone to come get me. Then I stood at the door and yelled until they let me out. I never saw my so-called friend who took me there by telling me we were going somewhere else.

It left me with a horror for any kind of MLM marketing. I will not go to the home "parties", no matter how much I like the hostess. Nope.
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oh my goodness, that is horrible! I know the lady I know that sells it or did was all the time looking for recruits but I guess that is how she kept her job/car KWIM?
 
jujube said:
I literally got trapped into going to a Koscot Cosmetics (a MLM pyramid scheme that started back in the 60's) recruitment event and it was like being kidnapped by a particularly virulent cult group.

We were in an Armory building with the doors locked so nobody could leave. I couldn't even go to the bathroom without someone following me and talking to me through the stall door. I'd get "ganged" up on by two members who would talk until my head was spinning.

I finally found a pay phone and called someone to come get me. Then I stood at the door and yelled until they let me out. I never saw my so-called friend who took me there by telling me we were going somewhere else.

It left me with a horror for any kind of MLM marketing. I will not go to the home "parties", no matter how much I like the hostess. Nope.
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Wow, thank you for telling us about that!
 
I was never interested in either Mary Kay or Avon. I didn't like the home visit thing. They both seemed very cult-like, especially Mary Kay. I heard some weird things about the organization. My mother sold Revlon cosmetics in her salon, so that's what I mostly used back in the day.
 

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