She waffled back and forth as to whether selling cosmetics was something she would have time for once back at school. On her final night at home before returning to Harvard, she bit the bullet and signed up.
"I was scared," she says. "I never considered myself a salesperson."
A Compact Shop
The next step was four 90-minute training classes given by a Mary Kay consultant living in Central Square. Haynie learned the correct methods for giving facials and applying make-up; facts about the products themselves; and, perhaps most important, skills for person-to-person selling.
Once trained, Haynie began to publicize her debut party through word of mouth, and by distributing flyers to friends, classmates and acquaintances.
She also changed the outgoing message on her answering machine so it now bears her Mary Kay title--a move that has earned her some flak.
"I had mixed responses from people," she says. "People's reactions were kind of like, 'Are you serious?'"
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