$8.27 an hour for 15 months, No raise til April! - Beauty Advisor Ulta Beauty Employee Review

3.0
7 Feb 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I love helping women feel more beautiful as well as working with all of the beauty products and makeup. I enjoy all of the tasks I am given as well as education on products! Also, love the gratis bags. The gratis bags make working for such low pay more palatable. I consider myself a very dedicated and hard worker, never late come in early and stay late whenever asked...etc...etc..

Cons

Can't get enough hours, hours get cut during season because many seasonal employees get hired. Gratis bag last time was very disappointing.

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
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Pros

Lots of gratis, management was nice, good discounts, fun and creative job

Cons

Some customers were insane, annoying to have to push credit cards

2.0
4 May 2026
Recommend
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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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