SO MUCH MORE THAN MAKEUP AND PINK CARS! - Independent Beauty Consultant Mary Kay Employee Review

5.0
Aug 26, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Priorities of owning a business are in order: First comes your faith, then your family lastly your career. As long as you remember those three things, in that order and additionally remember to treat people the way you would like to be treated: You will succeed! The flexibility and the money are the best reason to be a Mary Kay independent consultant. The more you put into your individual business the more you get out of it. You receive so much support from others, including Mary Kay Corporate, which allows individual growth. There is no other direct selling business that is out there where you can earn up to 50% from everything that you sell. It is a wonderful opportunity and I am proud to be a Mary Kay independent consultant!

Cons

There are really no downsides that I have experienced of working at Mary Kay Cosmetics.

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5.0
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Pros

People-oriented, good values, strong mission

Cons

Sometimes awkward hierarchy and employee performance review process

3.0
Feb 17, 2026
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Pros

Wonderful coworkers, amenities at the Mary Kay Building, and overall a mostly pleasant place to work from a day to day perspective.

Cons

Senior management seems totally lost. Strategy is ever shifting, and seems based more on whatever management's current flight of fancy happens to be. Little to nothing has been done to address the very real long-term issues related to the business. There's a reluctance to meaningfully change or address systemic issues leading to an existential risk to the business. It's so bad, the former CEO is suing the current CEO for mismanaging the company. They are father and son. It's that bad.

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