At work yesterday I took a group of ladies for a tour of the Mary Kay Museum at the Mary Kay World Headquarters in Addison, Texas. Mrs. Mary Kay Ash took a $5,000 investment in 1963 and built a 2.2 billion dollar business while along the way changing countless lives of men and women across the world.
I snapped a few fun photos…
I have a thing for oil paintings of people. I love them. You know when you go to estate sales and the owner has portraits on the walls of their children. I always wonder about the people in the paintings, what their lives were like. The stories they could tell.
I thought the names of these fragrances were funny…Jan and Snare. Who’s Jan? And, if I wear Snare, surely Chad Everett would have noticed me when I visited Medical Center.
Another oil painting and the pink, round ottoman. I want it! Why pink? In the ’60s, most American bathrooms were white. So pink was chosen for the Company’s packaging to give women beauty products they could keep conveniently on their bathroom counters.
Forty was fatal in 1963. Now, I think most women wearing Mary Kay for the last 50 years wish they looked 40.
Mary Kay’s encouraging words are displayed just outside her museum. The feathered frock I would wear on sandwich night at home.
Mary Kay’s Golden Rule, which was the primary principle on which she founded her company, is still very relevant today:
Hospitality is in my DNA. I founded Home with a Twist, a daughter’s twist on her mother’s traditions, in memory of my mother to celebrate her life and the gifts she shared with me. Mother loved to celebrate life’s occasions – big and small.
