I was a beauty consultant with Mary Kay in 2002 when the movie “The Battle of Mary Kay: Hell On Heels” aired on CBS. Despite the warnings of Mary Kay, Inc. and my uplines should not look at it as Mary Kay style consultants and sales force. The temptation overcame me and I turned to see what was going on. According to Mary Kay, Inc., they were not contacted by the CBS film and as if they had nothing to do with CBS. Mary Kay, Inc. We felt that if we all just ignored the movie and clicked on the movie, it would be gone soon.
Shirley MacLaine, who portrayed Mary Kay Ash in the film, did not know who Mary Kay Ash was before this film. he had never heard of it.
I got the DVD for Christmas last year and I recently decided to watch it again to get it from “The Pink Mist Horse”, as I gave my Mary Kay business a year ago. It’s amazing how well Shannon Doherty portrayed a Mary Kay beauty consultant and director who is passionate about moving in a company. The movie clearly plays on Mary Kay, however, the situation is odd.
The film was about Mary Kay Ash, who was then a covered direct sales company about beauty. Then Beauticontrol started giving the competition to Mary Kay and Jinger Heath (by Parker Posey), the wife of the top beauty executive training and motivating beauty He took the power of sales, as Mary Kay did with her company.
Below I have outlined scenes from the film that really stuck with me;
Shannon comes home from Mary Kay Seminary telling her husband that she is going to be Queen of Sales at next year’s Seminary. Her husband wanted to know if she would continue to eat for him. Personally, he could have caught them and he did, but here is a summary of what many of us who have been in Mary Cay have said. A plate of chicken and potatoes was hastily cooked for him, the mustard was quickly thrown over his head and popped into the microwave. Then he tells her to do the unwelcome – Chicken Cordon Bleu! He said that he had to go and start working on his plan now. I took this picture to represent the “second family” concept that Mary Kay teaches, but still, as you can see, she spent very little time with her husband.
As Shannon held a skin care class, they showed the panel with each guest and told each of them. how Mary Kay’s goods would be on sale. The last lady was inspired by her spiel and when Shannon asked her what she did for a living she said “I teach first grade”. What is Shannon’s answer? “Don’t you want to do it with your life?” Here again, this really struck me because this is another area that beauty consultants and directors have discussed with us many times – that Mary Kay has put aside other businesses, however important, for ladies. Being a teacher is a very important and meaningful job.
As Shannon progresses in society, she begins to become alienated from the people around her. She is at the guest house and they show the scene where Shannon is thrown out of the house. The friend said, “You promised you wouldn’t start this time! The last time you were here my friend didn’t talk for a week!” What is Shannon after this? She shrugged, put a big smile on her face and took off. He doesn’t care that he just lost a friend. All Mary Kay cares about is moving.
Throughout the movie, the reporter after Mary Kay Ash was interviewed about it. When the news brought out questionable sales practices and recruited more than the rest of Mary Kay’s beauty consultants and managers, Mary Kay would change things and turn everything around so that women would forget about that little were so clever it was scary.
If CBS did not have input from Mary Kay, Inc. they have done their own research. I was dead set on many subjects and questions, and they went round to make a joke out of it.
