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How much does it cost to start a Mary Kay business?

I am in grad school and thought I could make some money doing Mary Kay, how is the best way to go about this?

Hi! I am a Mary Kay Consultant. I started in February, so I have a good idea of the current costs!

Your starter kit only costs $100, but you need to place a $200 order to actually be considered an "active consultant." (That is $400 retail; you pay half price for everything.) Also, you need to order at least $200 ($400 retail) every 3 months (I think) to keep receiving that 50% price.

If you are going to get out there and start selling right away using your starter kit, it's not hard to do. But your Director may suggest you place that $600 order yourself so you can have more samples and "inventory."

I really like Mary Kay, but I do have to warn you that it is NOT a get rich quick company. You CAN get a lot of money, but it takes TIME and ENERGY, and most of the money comes from recruiting others. You really have to get out there and meet people and sell! They recommend giving 30 facials in 30 days as a "Power Start."

Mary Kay is a GREAT company....but it does take a lot of time, so maybe wait until after Grad school to start. I would rather you have a good experience with the whole process than feel "duped" and lose money because you just don't have the time to make it work for you!

Hope this helped!

[To receive bonuses..."An Independent Beauty Consultant's initial order with the Company must equal $600 or more in wholesale Section 1 products to be eligible (for the 50% price.)" That is $1200 retail. You can wait and get that in actual sales, but there is another free bonus for you if you place it within 15 calendar days. So, yes, the kit is $100, but they expect you to place an order fairly soon. And it does help you to have more stuff than just the starter kit!]

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Today, I'd like to speak to the men in the crowd. I want to discuss cussing. Why we men do it, and how we can do a better job of it. A lot of people, particularly my wife, tell me that I shouldn't cuss. That taking the creator of the universe's name in vain is just plain bad. Well, I have to agree that shouting out the creator's name when you hit your thumb with a hammer is probably not such a good thing. But don't you think that cussing provides some release during a serious injury like that? I do.

So, I have come up with a new way of cussing that provides us men with all the release we need without offending any deity who may be monitoring our actions. It also works really well with our life-time critics, the women who tolerate us on a day-to-day basis. I call it no-fault cussing (patent pending - all rights reserved).It's really based on the good old fashioned cussing our grandmothers used to do. Yes, my grandmother did a fair amount of cussing, as probably did yours, but there was just one problem with her brand of cussing. It was too benign to really provide that immensely satisfying release from a good, heart-felt cussword that men need. For example, my grammie used phrases like "dog gone it," "gosh darn it," and my personal favorite, "heavens to Betsy."

Although I never figured out what the "heavens to Betsy" was all about, these phrases were just fine for my grammie. After all, she just wasn't up to generating the kind of burning rage at an inanimate object that we men can. I think only men can really understand just how much a hammer, for example, needs to be totally blamed for smashing into your innocent thumb when you're just trying to hold an uncooperative nail. Actually, in that instance, both the hammer AND the nail need to be fully cussed out - with feeling. And "heavens to Betsy" just won't cut the mustard! Not for us men anyway.

Also, every time I shout something that the neighbors really shouldn't be hearing, my wife appears like a magic genii in the doorway... with her arms crossed... and that look on her face. A little side note here... I actually suspect that women practice that look from the time they are little girls. I further suspect that they are fully coached by their mothers, aunts, older sisters and every other female they may encounter while growing up. Yes, I firmly believe that women are completely prepared through a lifetime of intense coaching to just stand there... with that look on their faces.

Well, I'm sure all us men have experienced this. We've just let out with a masterful, and loud condemnation of the entire universe and its creator... we're standing there holding our seriously injured hand... and we look over, and there she is. No sympathy at all in that look. We pathetically hold our throbbing hand out to her so she can see the seriousness of our injury, and we give her that pleading look that says, "I've been seriously injured by this hammer and nail through no fault of my own. How about a little sympathy?"But do we get sympathy? I think you all know the answer to that. At most we'll get a, "What the hell are you doing? Do you want all the neighbors to know what a profane jerk you are?"You answer with, "No, but, look, the hammer and nail conspired to..."

She cuts you off with a, "Oh. You've injured yourself doing something that I told you that you had no business doing. Do you need to go to the hospital? Should I drop everything I'm doing to take you to the doctor?"Well... you sheepishly say that you don't need to go to the doctor, and yes, making dinner, taking care of the kids, doing the laundry are all things more important than your injury.

 

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