Meet Angie

Angie Limon

Sales Director   

Salida, CA

Cell/Text: 209.968.5152

Office: 209.545.8316

angielimon@marykay.com

www.marykay.com/angielimon

Espanol: www.marykay.com/angielimon/default.aspx

Twenty two year’s seems like yesterday!  I cannot help but to think back to the time when I crossed the platform at Vanguard University and was presented my degree in Psychology.  The words echoed through my mind as I went back to my seat…”Now what?”  I will say though that my mind went quickly to my fiancee at the time.   In just a few weeks I was to marry my college sweetheart and move to Northern California where he had just started a position as a Youth Pastor in Fremont.  On July 6 we were married and have enjoyed life together for the last 21 years!  After moving to Northern California I hit the pavement to find my first job out of college.  I started working for Alameda County Social Services where I worked with various cases in the welfare department.  My cases included low income families and making sure that their needs were met.   I enjoyed it for the most part, because I love helping people.  Sometimes I would come home emotionally drained or feel not appreciated for what I was doing to help others. Three months into my job, I was approached by a lady in the frozen food section at the grocery store and  she invited me to a Mary Kay photo shoot.  She introduced me to the product and I fell in love with it!   I had only known Mary Kay for the “Pepto-Bismol” pink Cadillac’s, but as she shared with me the business opportunity, it caught my attention!   I could not get the experience and the opportunity out of my mind.   I had a real heart to heart talk with Ed and told him I couldn’t see myself working at the County for the next ten, twenty, or thirty years, especially when the time came to start having a family.  I shared with him the Mary Kay opportunity and we invited the “Mary Kay Lady” over to get more information.  That night I started a new journey as I signed my agreement and made a new friend!    Michelle Mathews is not only my sister Director, but a dear friend after all these years! 

So in October 1991, as a newlywed, I began my Mary Kay career.  Ed was very supportive and we agreed that the only way I could afford to quit the County job was to make the same amount through Mary Kay.  Well, I took on the challenge and soon after my business began to grow.  I was able to leave my County job and pursue my Mary Kay career.   My entire family was silently unsupportive.  I think they thought I was crazy!  Here I was an educated woman and no doubt my parents were thinking, “We spent all that money for you to go college and graduate debt free, and now you’re going to peddle and play with make-up?”  My dad even pulled me aside and had a “you gotta be kidding me” talk!  Yet when I earned my first company car eleven months later, their tones changed!  A year and a half later when I became a Mary Kay Director, the questioning stopped and they have become my biggest cheerleaders!  It was at Seminar 1993 that I debuted as an Independent Sales Director for Mary Kay Cosmetics and for the last 20 plus years I have embraced the Mary Kay philosophy of God first, family second and career third.

I feel so blessed to have Mary Kay in my life and will be forever grateful to Mary Kay for creating such an extra ordinary company.  This Mary Kay journey continues to stretch me, always creating new growth in my career. My unit and I have received many awards and recognition, but none of that compares to the woman I have become and how I have impacted my children in a positive way.  The Mary Kay opportunity has provided the means to raise our children as a work from home mom.  Our children have grown up with a very different attitude due to the Mary Kay principles we have instilled in them.  Our eldest is on her way to college to major in communications, where her goal is to get into tv production and film.  We have always told our girls to dream big!  I have watched my youngest grow into a young lady who always goes out of her way to make someone feel accepted as if one was carrying a sign on them, “Make me feel special”.   This past year her peers chose her Freshman Class Princess for Homecoming!  Each of them are true leaders in their own unique way!  Our girls are Mary Kay kids who have grown up seeing powerful women in my Mary Kay sister Directors. 

After all these years, I still love my Mary Kay business because...

1.    It has impacted me to no longer be shy and timid, but  to walk with confidence

2.   It has impacted my husband, to dream big and not settle for less.

3.    Our children have an “anything is possible” attitude!

4.    I have had an opportunity to create a life for my family, not just making a living.

This has been a life changing and rewarding journey for my family and I!  Nothing in life is guaranteed, yet  your dreams can really come true if you are willing to do the work!   What do you have to lose?  Mary Kay once said, "Behind every success story in Mary Kay, you will find a simple explanation of great faith. I believe that every person has a capacity for greatness, that God planted the seeds there, and it is up to us to make them blossom forth with patience, guidance and belief. It is up to us to discover the multiple talents that we possess and bring them into fruition."  Thank you Mary Kay!