If you thrive in retail this positon will be good for you. - Benefit Arch Expert Ulta Beauty Employee Review

3.0
Feb 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Gratis, great RAM & DM Discount

Cons

Management (hot mess, constant gossip) Disorganized High Turnover Rate Guests in the store have no respect while you are in a service & will interrupt. This position requires a great team on board to help with sales. Supplies would never come in time and would take weeks to even recieve. I started as full time and no one disclosed this position was in danger to become part time due to sales that did not reflect my personal work ethic rather the last AE. Lost all my benefits and was bumped down to part time. There was no transparency of how or when to get full time position back. Salon started take clients for brows - while they have many capabilities... your menu will remain slim. You could be completely open for a brow client and if the girls in salon want the appointment you're just SOL.

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

Ulta has an amazing team and has great management.

Cons

They are short with hours.

2.0
May 4, 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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