Good way to build clientele quickly for stylists - Hair Stylist Ulta Beauty Employee Review

3.0
30 Mar 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good opportunities to build clientele and get further education at the company's expense to help build your skills. You also get a good overall education in general beauty supplies. The store discount for employees is decent.

Cons

Management has a lot of goals to meet and that is always passed along to the employee. There is always a lot of pressure to produce. There seems to be a lot of turn-over in management due to this I believe.

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5.0
27 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great management and coworkers. Fun environment to work in. Great benefits. Great pay. Love my job.

Cons

It is hard work; especially when you have to carry boxes of shampoo bottles. I am a tiny female and they are so heavy for me, but it is what it is.

2.0
4 May 2026
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Pros

good benefits for full time employees from what I hear. hourly pay if commission goal isn't met which is nice for those building clientele

Cons

this could just be the case for my store, especially because it's a very high volume store, but as a stylist I don't feel valued at all. I expected this to some degree coming to a huge corporate salon, but the biggest issue is that they try to pretend they care about you. but at the end of the day, if you're not meeting the sales they want/growing quickly enough, they don't care about you as a stylist. if you don't already have an established clientele, business is highly unreliable as there is no late cancellation/no show policy. many services are underpriced in my opinion, making it hard to meet their sales goals as an entry level part-time stylist unless fully booked every day. all they care about is getting as many clients in and out and quickly and possible and they hire more stylists than there are chairs, making every day inconsistent and chaotic. the relative stability of hourly pay is commission threshold isn't met seems enticing for stylists still building a clientele, but the hourly pay is wildly inconsistent between stylists, even those of the same tier. as a stylist of over 3 years who moved and is starting over with no clientele, I make over $2 less per hour than a fellow stylist who just got her license a few months ago and started taking clients for the first time last week. you're better off working at a place like Great Clips or Hair Cuttery because at least they're honest about what they are.

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