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    Ulta Beauty

    2.9 (522 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 1 month ago

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    Philosophy cleanser
    Jennifer C.

    Yesterday came in to get my birthday gift. Wide range of selection to choose from! [[HIGHLIGHT]]The lady was very helpful and waited for me to find my coupon that was emailed in the beginning of the month.[[ENDHIGHLIGHT]]

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    Natalia S.

    This review is for the unfriendly/uncaring service I received on Black Friday weekend. I interacted with 4 employees here and received VERY BAD service. I eventually was helped but dealing with the employees was not pleasant. The workers here are uncaring, dismissive, and provide unkind service. Problem #1: I stopped by to make a fast return. I went to the register and told the girl (Sarah?) I accidentally chose a wrong item earlier in the day and would like to return it. She tells me they are "having trouble with returns. It's not working right. You should take it back to the place you bought it from." in a very uncaring way. I was a little shocked to be honest. Telling me to go to another location instead of offering to help me..? Weird. I told her the other Ulta I bought it from is too far away, why I can't I just return it here? I then offered to do an exchange because I figured they are likely worried about making their sales quota for the day and I was planning to buy more stuff anyway. She said it "probably won't work right." I said since I'm here I'll just give it a try. She pointed me to the product which was helpful but never smiled once and wasn't nice/cheery at all. I get it, it was like 6:30pm but still a little care and consideration would have been nice. Problem #2: I went to shop around and I ask another Ulta associate if she can point me to the Mario Badescu aisle. The girl looked very confused and obviously did not know the answer, but instead of telling me that or getting help she said "Um um. We only have Mario Badescu travel size that are really small anyway. You probably don't need those." I said "ok thank you" and left. But I KNOW for a fact they have NORMAL SIZE items here so I don't know why she would even say that. I searched and guess what I found? The Mario Badescu aisle with NORMAL SIZE PRODUCTS. lol. WHAT THE HECK. Maybe this is why they're concerned about sales tbh. Unprofessional and not helpful. Problem #3: I was super happy to find a perfume set I wanted to get here with the free robe gift. When I went to the register I was happy to see they had 5 robes on the post. 3 white and 2 brown. I asked the girl, "Oh nice you guys still have robes? The Ulta I went to earlier was sold out." She said NO that they didn't have anymore robes. I look over to the OBVIOUS FIVE robes on the stand. I pointed and nicely said "What about those robes?" She said, "No those are done." DONE WHAT? There's 5 of them. I decided not to buy the perfume anymore because of this. PLOT TWIST TELL ME WHY Problem #4: the manager pulls up a register next to us and tells the man who bought a perfume "Ok you have your choice of a free robe or throw with your perfume" and she points to the robes the other girl JUST SAID "WERE DONE". LOL WHAT. She was offering the same robes the girl at the register just said that I couldn't get. LOL SERIOUSLY? How annoying is that? Apparently I was lied to about the robes. lol. The man picked a throw blanket so there was still 5 robes when I left. Problem #5: The product I got was not the right item, so the cashier calls an Ulta employee to look for it. WELL the girl NEVER came back. Mind you, you can see the aisle where the product was the girl literally just LEFT. LOL. WHAT. The cashier grabs a 2nd girl and asks her to help since she "sent America and doesn't know where she went" LOL. The girl America didn't even help just left somewhere else, the aisle was right next to us and the cashier even pointed to it. BRO. lol. I'm telling you the workers here don't even want to help you at all, it's so BIZARRE. Problem #6: The manager comes to help and says we can do an even exchange. I said my return is worth more. She says she will honor the online price ok cool but I should still have another $10 back in that case. She was doing the transaction and said "Why isn't this working?" The associate said "It's points" Frustrated the manager says loudly "ITS POINTS?!??" Clearly she wasn't happy for whatever reason. They were not happy about me using points here and it was very weird +uncomfortable. When the whole transaction was finally done, they did a return + they honored the online price so thank you! She tells me my total is $24 I said I would like to use my points, she sighed and was surprised.. "Oh your points" YES my points I have $64. It's not like it's $3 girl. Problem #7: she tells me I can "only use $23.50" worth of points when I have literally had $64 worth in there. I've been shopping at Ulta for over 10+ years. There is NEVER a point usage limit to use. Weird. Another problem #8: I heard the Ulta employees talking badly about customers talking about "You want to argue? I love to argue" I get we're all human, but on the floor where everyone can hear? UNPROFESSIONAL. I won't be coming back here. Most Ulta's have nice, helpful employees not like this location. I don't know what's going on with the new employees and management now. 2 Stars for cleaniness.

    I went in looking for someone to do my makeup , eyeliner specifically. I have zero knowledge about makeup and simply just wanted emo eyeliner done. Naz was at the salon and offered to do my makeup. She said that the makeup session included full face ($55) which I didn't care for. But she convinced me. I absolutely loved it. It was more than I expected. I took pictures all night so I could savor this look and kept on showing them off. How she did my lips was . Thank you again Naz!!!!

    Amy F.

    I came in to get my free birthday gift and [[HIGHLIGHT]]the lady who helped me was pretty rude. Her tone and the way she talked to me was extremely rushed, like she wanted me out of there.[[ENDHIGHLIGHT]] I'm sure she was a manager or shift lead, i tried to get her name but she didn't have one, or at least it wasn't anywhere near her shirt. [[HIGHLIGHT]]she also didn't even say have a nice day or anything, just said "thanks" and I didn't bother responding because she was pretty rude...[[ENDHIGHLIGHT]]

    A bit of everything travel-size!
    Malathy A.

    I go here cuz it's the close to work. What I did like going in today is this lovely woman (I'm gonna go back and get her name, I feel foolish for not asking) helped me with some products. She was polite, patient and most importantly knew exactly what I was looking for. I love how knowledgeable the staff is. I did land up paying a lot for some travel-size products though. Almost no discounts. I can't wait to go back when they have some good sale going on.

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    The selection is fine, but the whole place STINKS of perfume. It's so hard to breathe in there.

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    [[HIGHLIGHT]]Rude, incompetent employees who are over staffed and chat with each other and ignore customers[[ENDHIGHLIGHT]]

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    Great customer service, always smiling, good sales! Stock usually in , busy salon services.

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