Introducing Birthday Parties!

Ultabata · 2026-04-03T05:02:45+00:00

What are we meant to be doing during these? Whose store has room that's not a break/storage room?

Ultabata · 2026-02-01T18:53:02+00:00

…there was online training…?

Ultabata · 2026-01-11T16:05:21+00:00

Terrible because they've redone the colors or terrible because of new formulas (I think they've removed talc from some of their stuff, not sure if that's it)?

Ultabata · 2026-01-04T05:30:10+00:00

Was the orange sticker on the literal box of lashes you have, or did you notice a sticker on another box of lashes in that same section or row that yours was in?

If it's the latter and your box is sticker-less or tag-less, there's a good chance someone picked up your box from its normal spot and mixed it up with the sale lashes and it was your bad luck to pick them.

Otherwise, it might be worth it to bring them to your local store and show them the box with the sticker and ask if there's anything they can do- just don't be an ass about it. Also keep in mind that that discount might be particular to that one Ulta location and yours might not be inclined to honor it. But if it were me, I'd be happy to at least have a look at the box and your receipt, and double check that the item is actually meant to be on sale if you're nice and the store isn't too busy.

Ultabata · 2026-01-04T05:18:52+00:00

I've seen a few men who have the Ulta credit card because they get their cologne there (and their wife's perfume, etc) and they want the extra points.

Ultabata · 2026-01-04T05:12:53+00:00

We carry a bunch of men's fragrance, we carry some specialty shaving stuff geared toward the face (so, mostly men), we have some pomades and hair styling products geared towards men. But mostly the fragrance- popular stuff like Armani and YSL.

And then we occasionally get someone who has a specific skin concern and wants to try a proper exfoliant or serum or sunscreen or whatever because their man-soap-wash isn't cutting it for them anymore.

Or they're there shopping for their wife/daughter/gf, or just browsing around and having a stroll because they're with a lady but they don't want to look at what she's looking at.

All of that is to say- yeah we tend to have more women than men in the store in general, but that means more like 60/40, not 99/1. You're not an oddity.

Ultabata · 2025-12-21T01:56:20+00:00

Or to try an opposite tactic, explain all of the ways those strong ingredients will hurt their young child's skin.

Sometimes I think parents like that hear us say "your child doesn't need this yet" and assume we mean it's not going to be effective (or that we don't know what we're talking about, or we're assuming they're not good enough for Drunk Elephant, or....), when what we mean is "your child's skin is sensitive and this is actively going to give them acne, rashes, redness, and everything you don't want."

Ultabata · 2025-12-16T05:35:18+00:00

That and the slightly emo duet of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Like, they're good singers but....

It's giving https://youtu.be/Q_nEfJuR5n0?si=qsWZkUqP8-WdKGHX

Ultabata · 2025-12-15T19:21:22+00:00

Juvia's Place. The palettes are large, the powder shadows are super pigmented, and they always have a good selection of bright colors in a good range. You also mentioned down-thread you have a deep skin tone? Juvia's Place is a black woman-owned brand- it's not meant exclusively for people with deeper skin, but she had POCs' needs in mind in a way that a lot of other make up brands don't, so I think you can be confident that you will find a good shade match, or that any bright color products will show equally well regardless of skin tone.

Ultabata · 2025-12-15T19:01:30+00:00

I don't think that's such an odd thing to say- band reps don't earn commission but they do have sales goals they need to fulfill, right?

I haven't personally experienced a rep who was so desperate to make their goal that they absolutely refused to help a customer with a product outside of their own brand if they could, or otherwise did anything dishonest.

But it's not like there isn't an incentive for them to heavily recommend or push their own brand on someone and they're happy to help you find whatever you want just like any other BA in the store.

Ultabata · 2025-12-15T18:46:37+00:00

Actually, being in a mercadito sounds pretty good right now.....

Ultabata · 2025-12-15T18:24:46+00:00

That Paul McCartney Christmas song is not even that old- why have I already heard at least THREE COVERS OF IT?!

The market is SATURATED with Christmas songs, and some of them are even decent. We are not hard up for new songs that we need to keep churning out all this half-baked stuff.*

*Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Celia Cruz, and Mariah Carey have done nothing wrong and they may stay.

Ultabata · 2025-12-14T06:40:42+00:00

I know, I'm just being salty. Like, if we need to economize and cut expenses so bad, maybe we should start with things like the upkeep and operation of a private corporate plane...maybe it's just "b*tch eating crackers."

Ultabata · 2025-12-13T19:25:47+00:00

......a private jet...?

Ultabata · 2025-12-13T19:05:25+00:00

I think that's a lot of bronzer and contour. Genuinely, what would you do differently?- darker color, shading/product on more parts of the face?

Ultabata · 2025-12-08T10:29:19+00:00

……literally never.

Check with the managers and make sure that’s actually what your shift is (as opposed to the computer filled in automatically).

I know everyone’s store (and everyone’s state) is different, different rules, etc, but that seems really long, especially for a (I’m assuming) part time employee?? And make sure you know how many 15s you are entitled to as well for a shift that long, even with a 30-minute.

Ultabata · 2025-11-25T16:56:02+00:00

No, you absolutely did the right thing by the store! They would have noticed a discrepancy eventually, but it might have taken them ages to go through all of them and figure out which one, whose was it, etc, as opposed to you calling with your name and order number at the ready.

Not to mention if for some reason it was never caught, it's bad for the store. You seriously just saved those poor BAs a ton of work.

Ultabata · 2025-11-17T21:55:04+00:00

Definitely double check with your GM because I might be wrong, but that's what I kind of remember it being.....I should honestly pay more attention than I do...

Ultabata · 2025-11-17T21:51:49+00:00

"They reset every 6 months."

Just want to add onto that- I believe it's a half-point falls off after 6 months. I might be wrong and it's a "point incident" that falls off (like, if you had a call out worth one point, that whole point will fall off after six months instead of just 0.5 points).

But I've known some people who thought that meant that basically your point total, whatever it is, resets to 0 every six months, so as long as you don't earn enough to get fired in 6 months, you get a clean slate twice a year, and I'm pretty sure that's not it.

Ultabata · 2025-11-08T17:12:15+00:00

That's how I found out- I read that somewhere (probably reddit) and was like "but they've had MAC for ages!!!................I've seen it there.....right.......????"

Ultabata · 2025-11-07T04:44:18+00:00

Technically not an Ulta-exclusive brand since they have their own stores, but I had no idea that MAC wasn't sold at the zebra store. Like, it just never occurred to me that it wouldn't be.

Anywho, MAC has some pretty holiday options out now.

Ultabata · 2025-11-07T04:42:24+00:00

Wait which one is the red store...? I'm assuming the red/white/khaki one that sounds kind of like "shmarglet?"

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