Mary Kay reviews

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.

The company may be more conservative than others in terms of taking risks with products. The company also doesn't invest very much in marketing or advertizing, so those teams have to be very creative with their small resource pool.