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How Mary Kay Built a Billion-Dollar Empire
If you lived in Dallas in the eighties, as I did, Mary Kay Ash, founder of the eponymous Mary Kay cosmetics company, seemed to be everywhere all at once, promoting her business and herself. Ash telegraphed the kind of show-offy wealth that was so often a staple of Dallas—the city and the then-popular TV show. She wore a capacious blond bouffant wig that perilously topped her tiny frame and sky-high stilettos, and she had a cockeyed smile and a faraway gaze that was sometimes compared to Mona Lisa’s—if Mona Lisa had worn bright lipstick and heavy eyeliner. She had a bathtub the size of Switzerland. She had a mansion painted her signature pink.As Mary Lisa Gavenas makes clear in her new book, Selling Opportunity: The…The post How Mary Kay Built a Billion-Dollar Empire appeared first on Texas Monthly.