Khairunnisa Binti Mahfar Adib

Hasni Muhamad Daud

Hasni came from an ordinary family whereby her mother was a housewife, and her father was an army. She had been independent at a very young age and always helped her mother selling curry puffs to make ends meet. After her father retired, he started a small business in the market, and during school holidays, she would help him out.

Hasni excelled in her studies and she eventually had the opportunity to further her studies in the United States. After graduated, she came back, and worked at the bank in the IT department. This is where she worked for the next 18 years of her life. Hasni was shy and did not have many friends. However, she worked hard and worked till late night. This was when she learnt about Mary Kay. At the firm, she had a colleague, Norfiza, who always invited her to the Skincare class. Hasni always rejected the invitations. However, eventually Hasni realised the only way to get her to stop was to accept the invitation.

While attending Norfiza’s Skincare class she concluded that the Mary Kay business is so easy and decided to ask her sister to join Norfiza. Unfortunately, her sister rejected her idea saying that nobody would want to buy a skincare from someone who did not take care of her own skin. However, she managed to convince her sister to join Mary Kay and she paid for her registration and first activation. She taught her sister how to do the Mary Kay business based on what was demonstrated by Norfiza. She would refer her in-laws and friends to her sister. 3 months later Hasni signed up as her sister’s first team member who wanted to move up career path as a Senior Beauty Consultant.

Even though she never planned to focus on the Mary Kay business or quitting her job, she played her role as a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant well because she found that it was fun. She had skincare classes every week, consistently. She used the Hostess Program in those classes conducted at the government offices on Fridays and she usually had between 15 and 20 guests in her classes. She also travelled outstation a lot to hold the skincare classes. There were times when she was invited to hold classes for 50 to 200 guests, and she had been kind enough to share the guests with her other Mary Kay sister Directors. Along the way, she rose up the rank to be the National Sales Director she is today! Her proudest moments are when she gets to share her knowledge and change people’s lives for the better. She loves being able to mentor others who were in her position before. She was a two times mentor at both Leadership Conference and Career Conference during her 10 years as a Sales Director.

Mary Kay has transformed her from a stage fright person to a mentor in front of 750 Directors from Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. She has also delivered her speech in front of 4000 Beauty Consultants at the 2018 Career Conference. All this started from a small goal of sharing of the Mary Kay products every day. Now her efforts have snowballed, and she is impacting the lives of so many people. This was why she decided to take the leadership route, she believes she can help even more people. Her journey was not without challenges. She failed to enter National In Qualification programme the first time and it made her lost confidence and gave up her dream. But being a responsible leader and with the support from her husband and family who always wanted to see her success, she bounced back 6 months later even stronger. Hasni proved that despite it being a pandemic, we can all succeed if we are
determined and patient in pursuing our goals. If you fall 7 times, bounce back 8 times. What attracted Hasni to the business was the values. She upholds the 4 core values dearly; the Golden rule, which tells us to treat others like how we would like to be treated; the Go-Give spirit, the spirit of giving without expectations of receiving anything; make everyone feel important; and lastly the balance priorities, where we should keep God and family prioritised over work.

NAFISAH BT OMAR

Senior National Sales Director

“I was a bank manager before I joined Mary Kay. My days were filled with hectic schedule and long working hours, work life balance is a complete myth to me. I often put in extra hours in my job, soon I realized it was a bad idea as I was putting my health at risk and I’m drifting further away from my family, especially my young children. ” She continues, “And during that time, my skin was dull and unhealthy due to my busy lifestyle, I had no time to take care of my appearance, needless to say about choosing the right skin care products. I was introduced to Mary Kay skin care products through my colleague when I noticed her skin condition has improved. That’s when I started to try on my very first TimeWise® Miracle Set®, to my amazement, not only it did wonders on my skin, but to my life as well.”

A New Beginning
The decision of becoming an Independent Beauty Consultant was made after her positive product experience which opened her eyes to Mary kay business opportunity. Little did she know, this was just the beginning of a new chapter in her life. “It struck me that a successful career requires devotion, so does a successful and healthy family relationship. I know that young children demand for much love and attention from their parents. But raising children and building up career often collide. Is there a solution? Yes. I found my answer in Mary Kay. The flexibility of this business allows me to earn while taking care of my children which is an extra bonus I didn’t have before. At the same time, I feel fulfilled and contented as I am able to enrich other women’s lives and help them to reach their goals.”

A Passion to Success
“After years of working on my Mary Kay business, I found out that this business is more than selling skin care and make-up products, we are in a business of inspiring and empowering women, to help them regain confidence, improving self-development and discovering self-worth. ” When asked about her secrets to success, she said “Firstly, you must love what you do, therefore having passion in your work is very important, it infuses energy and motivation in your every action. I also believe that consistency, personal discipline are solid indicators for success. I highly recommend weekly plan sheet and create your To Do List daily, which helps to consistently monitor our progress and make necessary adjustment if needed.”

The Mary Kay Culture
“In Mary Kay, I also learned that our actions and words have a huge impact in other’s lives too, therefore I always believed in the Golden Rules. I learned to be more understanding and put myself in others shoes, see things from their perspective and be more mindful in words. The biggest change in my life, I would say is that, I am now a more caring person, I have become a better listener, I am more tolerant, I pay more attention to my team, I listen to them and also to their unspoken words. I have learned not to come with preconceived notions, and I don’t ‘make it about me’. That is what’s so beautiful about the Go-Give spirit, it allows you to appreciate others and to make them feel important.”

Words of Advice to New Independent Beauty Consultant One piece of advice she has for other independent beauty consultants is to persevere in your business, be disciplined in doing your daily personal work, be consistent and simply work hard! “There will be happy moments and there will be sad moments. That’s life. But if you set your goals, stay focused and take steps each day to achieve those goals, you will eventually reach there.”

JANE LEE EAN TIN

Senior National Sales Director

ROBIAH BT HURI

NURUL SHAKIRIN LEWIS

Values That She Holds Tight
The Mary Kay’s values of Balanced Priorities, Golden Rule and Go Give spirit were the reasons she was attracted her to the Mary Kay’s business opportunity. “This unique philosophy helped guide my business every day.” She worked hard to master the people skills in order to make others feel better in her space. Through this beauty journey, she was not only richer financially, but also spiritually as she upholds strongly the Golden Rule, Go Give spirit and Balanced Priorities.

A Zero-Sales Experience
Did you know that a zero-sales experience was one of the factor that helped her to move up her career path? “I had a skincare class with 15 women when I was a Red Jacket, and I started to estimate my sales before the class. However, I ended up having nothing because I was distressed waiting for my ‘payment’ to come in. It was at that moment I knew the importance of Go Give spirit. When we learn to generally give to those people without expecting them to do something in return, we win.”

On 1st of March 2018, her team organized a surprise party to celebrate her achievement as Senior National Sales Director. “I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to ALL of them, for their help, support and patience throughout these 15 years.”

Facing Challenges Makes Her Stronger
The biggest obstacle that she encountered in her Mary Kay career life was low self-confidence. “Confidence is very important in life. Without it, you will not be able to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.” Therefore, she never stop learning. “When you learn more, you know more. You will be a lot more confident about yourself.” Her next goal will be helping her off springs to become National Sales Director.

SUHAIDA BINTI SARIF

NORRAZEAN ABDUL RAHMAN