Beauty Brands Reviews

Pros

Professional Growth
Growth within the Company

Cons

Return Policy- Can return anything at anytime.. No limitations on what is being returned and for how long after purchasing it can be returned

Pros

Learn about retail store and salon as well as makeup and skin care

Cons

Management makes promises they don't keep regarding promotions, refusal to hire management from within and brings in people who know nothing about how to treat their employees, bad management habits.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more professional in how you treat your employees who actually work very hard for the company.

Pros

Flexible Hours & Schedule. Discounts on Products. Health, Dental & LIfe Insurance.

Cons

No advertisement for the Spa at all. Most customers think that this company sells products only, which makes the pay horrible for the Salon & Spa. Upper & Lower Management (Includes the District Manager) treat their employees horrible. Constant Drama within the Management Team. When busy which is very rare breaks or lunches on a 7 to 8 hour work day is non existant. Constant customer complaints to employees about the Upper Management. Vacations are a joke, they find ways around letting the employees actually have a real vacation. Management is very rude around customers to the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the Upper Management, including the District Manager and get some people that actually want the employees to excel. Advertise Advertise about the Salon & Spa!!!

Pros

Feel valued and challenged. Location manager sees me as an asset and as an important party of the management team.

Cons

Pay. As a manager, when seeing the revenue for the company accrue, difficult to not be disgruntled about your personal compensation.

Pros

They were flexible with my school schedule, and it was a pretty relaxed atmosphere. I liked the accessibility of using many different products.

Cons

They do not care about you as an individual, and it was a very business-like atmosphere for a place that is supposed to have creativity as the focus.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not use so many acronyms and business-like ideas. It was hard to feel creative and expand on ideas for your clients with this atmosphere. It was also hard to retain clients because of the superstore feel.

Pros

Great discount. Free product. Enjoyable coworkers for the most part. Flexibility in schedule for managers. Opportunity to grow with company if you were willing to do it their way.

Cons

Did not allow life/work balance. Horrible communication between upper and lower management. Not a good sense of job security. Hard to tell if you were doing a good job or not. Made to feel as if you are a pawn to do others bidding. Alot of unethical behavior between other store manager and immediate supervisor.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to learn to adapt to today's ethical ways of doing business and fostering good team work among other members of management. Treat others in a consistent and fair manner while following company's policies and procedures.

Pros

Fairly laid back atmosphere, allowed to work independently

Cons

Massage services are underpriced so Massage Therapists are underpaid and Beauty Brands takes too big of a cut, not to mention- isn't capable of providing enough repeat business due to their first time client special which only brings in the penny pinchers (who rarely tip if they tip at all), not potential long-term clients, so it's impossible to make a living there.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need to know the pay for positions they're hiring before making offers and promises they can't keep to new employees.

Pros

It is wonderful working for this company. The management is friendly and approachable. Wonderful coworkers and decent benefits. Great opportunity for advancement and continuing education.

Cons

As with most corporations, sometimes it feels employees are a number on a page rather than a person when dealing with the higher ups.

Pros

Beauty Brands was founded on the principals of good business. The owners had a vision but didn't know much about the industry, so the hired a team of professionals from every corner and allowed them to do their jobs. Their focus is on their staff. They encourage their salon and spa professionals to build and grow their businesses and give them many tools to do so. They not only provide but pay their staff to attend top notch, high quality education to ensure their continued growth, provide a complete benefits package, a modern, well designed facility and dryers, some heat tools and all the products they need to do their jobs. With a sliding scale compensation plan there is no ceiling on income and there are more growth opportunities for those who choose to branch out from their positions. I've been in the business for nearly 29 years. I've worked for small, commission salons, booth rental, and owned my own salon. I can earn as much here at Beauty Brands as I did in Booth rental (and I manage my money very well) PLUS I have the advantage of being able to focus on my clients without having to juggle the business end of being self-employed. While I enjoyed being self employed and achieved a certain level of success in that capacity, Beauty Brands is such a great place to work that it isn't worthwhile to be so. The constant forward momentum, the ability to continue to grow both personally and in my profession, the ongoing, exceptional educational opportunities and the great atmosphere make Beauty Brands Salon and Spa an amazing experience.

Cons

Because you work for someone else, you will be expected to show up for work, ready to work and on time. They do prefer you come in without the hangover and bad attitude. If working in a team atmosphere is not for you, you may not find it such a good fit.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on the success of your staff and you will continue to grow your own success. All I can say is thank you for giving me such an amazing group of people to work with and a beautiful salon with all my favorite products and toys at my disposal.

Pros

Flexibe with schedule, Understanding when it comes to personal issues, great benfits, awesome team, professional yet understanding management, good product discount, excellent ongoing education opportunities

Cons

disappointing we dont make commision on retail sales

Advice to Senior Management

I believe corporate is doing a fantastic job with over-sight of all locations. Even though main office is in Kansas City, there is still time made to come out to other locations just to make sure everything is being done properly. However I do feel that before hiring every stylist that does a technical, a little more insight on ACTUAL technical ability on all services, should be looked into.