On a shoe string, Mary Kay Ash did it, Debbie Fields did it, I did it, and you can too.

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But Mary Kay Ash had far more work to do with the ideas that traced back to the house party.

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Mary Kay Cosmetics was founded by Mary Kay Ash in 1963.

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