I love Ulta, don't get me wrong, the store is fantastic and the products are wonderful. But recently they have been careless about their customers. I walk around Ulta waiting for service, and no one is around to assist me, and if there are workers around, they don't even bother ASKING me if I need help. When they finally notice me, they are rude and useless. I dislike the workers that work at this location.
Never color your hair at this Ulta Salon! Here's why:
After seeing all the mixed reviews this salon gets, I decided to give it a try. I walked in on May 28th and asked the salon worker, that was at the register, to tell me how to make an appointment and what days the salon had openings. Well, she never really told me anything, except to "just make an appointment with her now"... So i did. She scheduled me for May 29th. And left the store.
I came in on May 29th and saw that there were only 2 workers working, one was with a client and the other was not. I waited to be checked in for quite sometime. When the lady that didn't have a client finally noticed me, she checked me in and placed me on the salon chair. She asked me what I wanted and i said "ombre/balayage" and showed her a picture of what I wanted the outcome to look like or be similar to. She said that she could do it. So she began...she took me to the sink where I was told that she was going to strip the color out of my hair from the previous dye and when she puts the product on, it was going to burn or itch my head. I got really nervous. As she did this process, my head was on fire. I felt like my scalp was melting off for 10 minutes. After the horrible wait and process, she rinsed my hair and took me back to the chair. She started applying bleach and dye to my WET hair... I didn't understand why she didn't blow dry my hair first, then put on the bleach? But as she began putting the bleach on my hair, she put it DIRECTLY on my scalp and it burned so bad!! Anyways, after she was finished doing my so called "ombre/balayage", she put me under the heat for about 30 minutes so she could go eat... After the 30 minutes were over, she rinsed my hair and took me back to the chair, where she then blow dried my hair.. I didn't want to look so she turned me to the side, so i couldn't see the end result becauseIi was so excited! When she finished, she turned me towards the mirror, and I was HORRIFIED! My hair looked nothing like the picture or what I was expecting. It was brassy, dried out, and worst of all, ORANGE. Even my hairdresser said it was orange and she couldn't do anything about it, then left to go get my bill. She came back and tried to reschedule me for my next appointment and I flat out told her "I will not be coming back", and walked off to go pay. I was embarrassed and afraid to go anywhere, after leaving the store.
The next day, I decided that I wanted a refund. So I called Ulta and told the first lady that picked up, "I want to speak to a manager." And she told me to wait while she transfers my call. I was waiting for a good 10 minutes before the manager responded. As I'm complaining and asking questions, all she could say was "I'm sorry, I don't know what to say" "I'll call you later as soon as I get a hold of the salon manager, another day". I agreed to do this, and gave her my number. That was the end of it.
Five days go by and I haven't heard back from the manager. So I called the store again and asked to speak to another manager, luckily the lady who picked up first this time was one of the managers. I told her about the situation and complained about the other manager. She helped me so much...Long story short, I got a refund and a 30% off discount on my next salon visit. I haven't visited this Ulta store or the salon ever since. I would not recommend this place to anyone, no matter how "inexpensive" or "great" people say they are. Spend your money at a place that you know does FANTASTIC hair and is worth the time and money! read more