Beauty

[Nightowlz]

I just found out they are putting in an Ulta here. Cannot believe it. Hope they do enough business to stay open. Will be nice not to have to order online or shop there when I make the 3 hr round trip drive. I just hope they stock as much stuff at the Ulta's I have been in. The stores here don't seem to have as much selection.

Now if they would just open a Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Costco, Sam's or a lot of other places. We did just get a Schlotzky's that also sells Cinnabons.

[StillRachB]

@Nightowlz are you in a rural area?

[Nightowlz]

Our address is still a rural address but I don't consider us in a rural area. We just live in a smaller town. Not big like Dallas, OKC, Jacksonville Fl. etc. Our Mall is pretty much dead. The only 2 main Dept stores still open in the mall are Penney's & Dillard's. We now only have 2 places in town to buy appliances.

[PINKdogWOOD]

There's a new Ulta about 8 miles or so from me.  I've been there a couple of times, no more than 5 or so.  I was overwhelmed when I walked into the store - it is HUGE.  I've never seen so many brands of SO many beauty items in my life!!!!!  I'm in a big city too. 

Anyway, I have been all through it.  There are brands of facial items, makeup I use.  The prices are the same as on many sites I shop my products at.  Two wks ago my DH & I went in, he bought a shampoo he loves & I bought a tiny 1 oz jar of PTR regenrating moisture gel. He paid $97+ - I pretty much freaked.  I know I can buy both for less elsewhere.

When we got home I got online and bought the same 2 items on amazon for 1/2 the price - brand new, unopened with seals items. When I got them I returned the ones from Ulta.

All that for this - I can buy what I need elsewhere with free s/h most times and no tax sometimes, or at my local pharmacy.

[ECBG]

We have one here and they also do facials, possibly hair cuts.

 Maybe the ladies can weigh in since I rarely go in.

[hoosieroriginal]

We too are getting an Ulta and a Whole Foods 360 (both replacing our Sears store that has closed).  I would love to see a Marshall's come here also. 

[sandraskates]

We got Ulta a few years ago. I'd heard so much about them and was so excited that I was the first customer in the store when they opened.

I think it's an okay store but as it turned out I don't go there much at all.

I like Sephora's makeup collections better and I tend to buy my hair products at Target.

[Trix]

Ulta and Sephora stores are not intended to be universally the same. The store size, design, and inventory varies slightly at each location.  The stores which will have just about everything will generally be those located in big city hot spots.  Even then, because there will be multiple stores within close proximity of one another the inventory may vary.  In other words, some people may feel the store is no big deal because theirs is lacking so much, while others have nothing but raves about theirs (such as my experience being in downtown Chicago).

[SahmIam]

Ulta has a fantastic rewards program which people wish Sephora would adopt. I have an Ulta 5 minutes away. I only buy when there are extra points or 20% off. I buy everything I use on a daily basis plus brands that Sephora does carry but doesn't offer on sale other than during F & F. But hair products, perfume, Lancome, Clinique, nail products, drugstore products, Korean products, beauty appliances... ALL come from Ulta. 

I have nothing bad to say about it, lol.

[StillRachB]

@sahmlam they do have fantastic rewards. In the last year and a half, I have earned almost 4500 points, about $260, in rewards. I'm hoarding them for a rainy day. I have 4 Ultas within 20 minutes of my house. One I rarely go to, one I'm not a huge fan of but I go there anyway because it's in an area where I run lots of errands but I don't like their brow bar girls, one is a huge, bright, brand new store but not my favorite. I most often shop at the store closest to my house, which happens to be the smallest if the 4. I love my Benefit Brow gal there. And even though it's the smallest, they tend to have the most stock of what I buy. I'm in there atleast once a week.