Meet Petie Huffman

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I started my Mary Kay business in August 1978.  We had recently moved to Chicago from Ohio and I quickly found out that the cost of living was much higher than our little hometown of Crestline, Ohio.

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I was a music teacher and decided that I was going to have to go back to teaching.  But when I applied, I found out that I would have to go back to school first.  We had 2 children so I started taking care of a couple of other children while I looked for something else.  It was then that someone approached me about "teaching skin care for Mary Kay", instead of teaching music to students.  I thought that I would try it for 2 years, until my children would be a little older.

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I loved being a consultant at my very first class.  I lived in an apartment complex and I ran all the way home.  It was such a shock for all my friends because before Mary Kay I was a tom boy that didn't wear makeup.  But I lived this business and shared the opportunity with my customers and became a director in November of 1979.

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We then had 2 more babies and they both came home from the hospital in a Pink Cadillac.  I love how flexible you can be with your business, because my husband traveled 42 weeks out of the year and I worked my consultantship part time and my directorship full time, but out of our home while the children were still at home.

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You can make your Mary Kay career anything that you want it to be...and remember "the sky is the limit!"