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Mary Kay Gives Woman Push To Open Her Own Shop

East Oregonian:

PENDLETON - Downtown Pendleton's Bags, Buckles and Bling sells just what its name suggests, along with quite a bit more.

Sunny Waggoner owns and runs the business at 151 S.E. First St. Her name is equally fitting as she comes across with an exuberant business attitude.

Bags, Buckles and Bling is her first retail venture, although she has eight years of experience selling Mary Kay cosmetics, including one as a director. It was contact through Mary Kay that prompted her to go all-in on the business.

"It's always been a dream of mine to own a little shop," she said. "I just love what I'm doing."

Pink Truth: Mary Kay Reps Raise Money for Family

A number of independent Mary Kay consultants have pledged to donate 100 percent of their proceeds from a cosmetic set to the family of slain officer Cpl. Nick Polizzotto.

Sales consultant Laura Vincent said she wanted to contribute to the Polizzotto fund after hearing about their son's death, so she organized the Mary Kay Satin Hands Pampering Set fundraiser.

South Bend Tribune:

The Satin Hands Pampering Set by Mary Kay Cosmetics sells for $30.00. To participate, residents can go to any First Source Bank and deposit $30 into the Polizzotto Family Fund, according to Vincent. Within a week consultants will contact and deliver the product to them.

The goal is to sell 1000 sets and provide a check for $15,000, she said.

For more information contact Erica Hunt at (574) 674-0553 or Laura Vincent at (574) 674-1564.

Kerry Buskirk Mary Kay Speaker

Keynote speaker Kerry Buskirk, Augusta, a senior national sales director for Mary Kay Cosmetics, provided plenty of laughs with her powerhose story, and a take-home message for women to begin today making changes in their lives so that at the end they will have no regrets. Having no regrets is not the same as making no mistakes, Buskirk said, likening that to attending a movie where you are neither moved to laugh nor cry.

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Mary Kay Inc - Pink In the Rink

OSC:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte Checkers announced today that they will hold their inaugural 'Pink in the Rink' game at 4:00 pm on Sunday, Feb. 11 to benefit Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, Carolina Breast Friends and American Cancer Society.

 

The Checkers will wear special pink jerseys bearing the logos of the three organizations and there will be a live jersey auction following the game with the proceeds going to the organizations.

 

"The Checkers are really excited about Pink in the Rink," said Tera Black, Vice President of the Checkers. "In one way or another almost everyone has been touched or affected by women's related cancers."

Women Trading in on Traditional for Mary Kay Cosmetics

Before finding her dream job, Kristen Marks was a practicing attorney. Emily Sims was vice president of a wireless company. Cari Pettit was a human resources manager. And Michele Larson was an administrative assistant.

The four Pensacola Bay Area women traded in their standard salaries, long hours and grueling workload for a job that they say is much more fun and rewarding: selling Mary Kay skin care and cosmetics.

And they have reaped the benefits -- more time at home with their children, no boss to report to and extras like vacations and vehicles.

In the pink | Life | PensacolaNewsJournal.com

Mary Kay Lady Caught Up in the Make-Up

I was the worst Mary Kay lady ever.

I got orders correct and gave each customer a free gift with their purchase, but believe me, I was bad. I would have never earned the pink Caddy. Heck, I would have never earned my junked 1987 Ford Escort. Why?

Two reasons: My heart wasn't in the sell, and I broke the first rule of beauty sales — I got high on my own supply.

I had a jones for Age-Fighting Moisturizer. I craved Private Spa Embrace Dreams. The bottles, vials and jars that filled my modest apartment called to me in my sleep. I wanted my normal-to-dry skin to be as smooth as baby cherry tomatoes. I wanted to reverse the signs of age, unclog my pores and revitalize my skin.

Suddenly I was addicted to cosmetics, and it was nothing like Robert Palmer's song Addicted to Love. It was more like the NWA song Dopeman.

"To be a dope man boy you must qualify," then NWA member Ice Cube sang. "Don't get high off your own supply."

Makeup breakup frees former Mary Kay junkie

Mary Kay Filling The Needs of Women

Lavish Hand Care From Mary Kay

Filed under: Misc.

Our hands are among the most essential parts of our body that we tend to take for granted most of the times. Our hands are most prone to stress because they literally do all that needs to be done. This gets noticed when you feel calluses on the palms and wrinkles at the back of the hand. Our hands can be the best asset we have if just take good care of it, even pamper it a little bit.

Mary Kay understands women’s need that’s why they have a new offering – the satin hands pampering set. If you love the scent of peach then you will also love the New Satin Hands Satin Smoothie Hand Scrub. Its lovely fresh peach scent is very pleasant and never irritating to the nose. This item works like an exfoliant that removes dead skin cells from your hands.

Mary Kay Has Come a Long Way Since 1963

Mary Kay Ash founded her cosmetics company in 1963 with only $ 5, 000, nine independent beauty consultants and a 500 sq. ft. store in Dallas. Last week, Mary Kay Inc. concluded its annual sales seminar in Big D. They had a $ 2. 2 billion sales year.Since 1969, the company has awarded thousands of special Cadillacs to its top sales people. Apparently, years ago, Mary Kay ordered a Cadillac for herself and told the car dealership she wanted it the same color as her compact — pink. Her vehicle was such a hit with her sales force, she began an incentive program for them with a pink Caddy as the big prize. Nowadays Mary Kay salespeople can earn three cars.Red Pontiac Vibes are entrylevel awards. Silver Pontiac Grand Prixs are the middle prize and the pink Cadillacs are the top awards. About 2, 000 women drive Cadillacs and 10, 000 more have received Pontiacs. A sales director and her team must sell at least $ 96, 000 in cosmetics in a sixmonth period for the director to qualify for the top award. Directors start out as salespeople and work their way up.

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Finding Direct Selling to Be Beneficial

On just about any night of the week, you can bet there's a home party going on somewhere. During these parties, you can buy almost anything: from candles to food to cosmetics to tools. In fact, this type of direct selling is a multi-million dollar business that some folks in the Heartland are tapping in to. However, can you really make any money doing this? Here's what two local women had to say.Crystal Shafer sells At Home America furnishings. Just like the company title, Crystal really can sell these decorations at home! In fact, she says about 85% of her home is covered with the furnishings, making Crystal's house a psuedo-store."It did allow me to quit my full-time job!" said Crystal.Crystal invites people here for a showing of the products, but she primarily takes the decorations to other homes, to sell them, of course!

Direct Selling: Is it For You?

Mary Kay & Cadillacs One Of the Oldest Business Relationships

Bruce Springsteen immortalized the pop power of pink Cadillacs.[Click image for a larger version] MONA REEDER/DMNMONA REEDER/DMNRobyn Cartmill (left) and Julia Mundy have both earned several pink Cadillacs as Mary Kay consultants.But the luminous cars are also at the center of one of the oldest, most unusual business relationships in the auto industry – the one between Addison-based Mary Kay Inc. and General Motors Corp.This week, Mary Kay concluded its annual sales seminars in Dallas with the ritual rewarding of hundreds of big pink Cadillacs to the cosmetic company's top salespeople. At a time when many companies are downsizing, cost-cutting, laying off and buying out, Mary Kay's "trophies on wheels" continue to grow as part of one of the biggest corporate award programs in the United States."The cars are a billboard for the company as well as for success in our industry," said Sean Key, vice president of sales development and administration at Mary Kay. "When a woman drives down the street in a pink Cadillac, everyone takes notice – from truck drivers to teenagers."Julia Mundy of Decatur, who recently qualified for her sixth pink Cadillac, recalls how she felt the first time she wrapped her fingers around the steering wheel."Like Miss America, like the queen of everything," she said.Even better for GM, Mary Kay is "not even considering another car to replace the Cadillac," Mr. Key said – though Cadillac's cachet has waned a bit over the years.

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