Mary Kay reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(139 total reviews)

Ryan Rogers

73% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

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3.0
Aug 26, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is something you can do at home and be your own boss. Activities are a lot of fun and you can make friends. The products are great to use for yourself and for gifts. You can make money if you are willing to invest the time and money to recruit and buy products.

Cons

They change product lines frequently and add limited edition products so it is difficult to keep up with your inventory. You often end up with discontinued items that are no longer in their catelogs. You have to invest a lot of money upfront to buy inventory and supplies as well as a lot of time to find contacts, make appointments, do classes and most of all recruit! Your life will never be the same!

3.0
Aug 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great female social life if you're in the right unit with women your age If you have a good party, you can make unlimited amounts of cash

Cons

Talk about makeup and skin care all day, every day. You will be bombarded to the point of irritancy by emails, updates, specials, contests. Unreliable income - there's no pay. Your commission is your pay, so if you're not selling, your not making anything. The only way to make a career out of MK is to recruit others into your team, make commission off their sales, grow your team to move up in the company. If you stay at the beauty consultant level you are living from sale to sale. You have to buy the product first, you have to pay lots of $$ in samples, supplies, shipping, discounts. You don't really get the commission they say you will get because it's impossible to sell their product for such a steep price, so you end up giving away your commission in sales and discounts.

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