Mary Kay Ash started her business with a dream to inspire women. For 55 years, the Mary Kay opportunity has empowered women to reach their true potential and discover their beauty—both inside and out. With Mary Kay, women can enrich their lives and the...

Have you noticed? Everyone’s talking about the unstoppable power of pink! Earlier this fall, in celebration of the company’s 55th anniversary, Mary Kay partnered with The Museum at FIT (MFIT) to unveil a special exhibition: ‘Pink: The History of a Punk,...

Mary Kay Ash once said, “Courage is the art of doing what we fear to do and doing it well, no matter how difficult we think it might be.”  If it weren’t for our founder’s courage to blaze a new trail for women 55 years ago, her venture may have never led...

My first impression of Mary Kay Ash was formed before I even met her or worked at the company.  Twenty-five years ago, I was sitting in the human resources lobby waiting for my first job interview with Mary Kay’s Corporate Human Resources Manager (my...

Twenty-five years ago, I moved to Russia on a one-way ticket and embarked on an amazing adventure that led me to Mary Kay, and to a life very different from the one I had imagined for myself. The words my mother told me at the time, when I had no job and...

We all know the saying “it’s what’s on the inside that counts” and I wholeheartedly believe that to be true. I also believe that the clothes you wear offer another way to show others how you feel on the inside.   Empowered. Confident....

After a long and successful career in the direct selling industry, Mary Kay Ash could have easily decided to retire for good but her passion to create opportunity for women drove her to start her own company that is now 55 years strong and in nearly 40...

Mary Kay Ash once said, “Our future belongs to those who see the possibilities before those possibilities become obvious.” Truer words were never spoken! Everyone is born with imagination – that special ability to see new ideas, images or concepts in...

It’s a special day for our Mary Kay family! May 12th marks what would have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday. What I know for sure as we celebrate her century-long legacy is that Mary Kay Ash was a woman ahead of her time, all the time. She stepped out into a man’s world in the 1960’s to blaze a new path for women and in doing so, she built a company with the progressive purpose of empowering women.

While in many countries Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day, Mary Kay Ash never bought into those superstitions. In fact, she spent her life savings to start her Mary Kay business on Friday, Sept. 13, 1963.