Beauty First Reviews

Pros

Learn to open and close a retail store, learn how to market products effectively to clients, and learn how to maintain a functioning salon.

Cons

Management more concerned with physical appearance than company success, hours given and taken away in the blink of an eye. Stand up for yourself if you choose to work at Beauty First.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, they have a lot of good advice that can be pertinent to the success of your store.

Pros

You have the opportunity to play with a large range of hair, skin, and nail products. It's great for a product junkie like myself. Free product giveaways happen regularly. The company offers product training classes that you can use to further help you sell products. This job is great for a highschool student or a beauty school student who only needs part-time hours. The salon offers hourly vs. commission and booth rent opportunities. The store hours are nice as far as retail is concerned... I never leave later then 8:15pm.

Cons

The pay is minimum wage with almost non-existant opportunities for pay increases. The managers have first grabs on hours so the rest of the staff is left with limited part-time hours... like 15 hours per week. Overtime is a no-no if you are an hourly employee. Beauty consultants have sales goals that are unrealistic in the face of the sour economy. Management pushes Gold Card sales and then they are the ones who get bonuses if we meet our goals. The products are overpriced and slow to replinish... our store is always out of our best sellers and it's embarassing to turn down sales to frustrated customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Where are our products??!?! We cannot meet sales goals if we don't have products to sell.

Pros

Very flexible for student schedules that change frequently

Cons

Ability to receive yearly raises needs improvement

Advice to Senior Management

More frequent reviews for raises needed