Ulta Beauty — Local services in Gilroy

Long rant coming: I highly doubt this employee works here anymore. It was Aug 2019 and I was in a pretty bad place. I was going to get my first pixie cut as a way of acting out I guess, and I was worried about how my face would look without my hair to hide behind. I came to this store and encountered an employee, an older woman, maybe in her late 40s. I don’t know what it was about her but she was so kind, the way she spoke was so soothing, and she genuinely made me feel better. She directed me to the LA Girl blushed babe palette for blush and contouring colours. I cut my hair off and wore that palette regularly. At one point it broke on a flight and my fav colour shattered. I mashed it back in and continued using it. I kept using it until it was finally gone. I got a new one when I saw it was it in the clearance bin, but I put it inside of the old box. Every time I look at that palette years later, I think of that woman, and how much I wish I could tell her what her kindness meant to me when I was truly alone. Thank you kind woman for giving me a reason to smile when I had nothing to...

If you can avoid this specific Ulta altogether then that would be to your benefit. I went in yesterday to the MAC station at this ulta store at 10:30 a.m I walked in and looked around and all the workers were talking and didn’t greet me, and when I found the MAC station the one girl who was working it was doing her own make up and looked annoyed when I asked her to match me. I told her I’ve had bad experiences and everywhere I go they aren’t giving me the right color for my skin tone, and she started putting different foundation colors on me. After three, she showed me one that looked perfect for my skin (using as little communication as she possible could) and she grabbed the box and gave it to me. She didn’t offer me a pump which I didn’t need I knew, and when I got home it was hard to get the foundation out of the bottle AND it’s completely orange and not the right foundation at all. Now I have $40 dollar makeup that is orange. I don’t expect much from a beauty store in Gilroy but if you’re desperate just go...

Looked around a bit and one of the sales people came over. I had a lot of questions about various brands of foundation, primers and eye makeup. I restocked on all the basic items with some new products but kept with the Clinique line for foundation as a lot of other brands all high end bother my sensitive skin. Clinque also had one of the silkiest primers I've ever felt. The sales person really knew about all the lines Ulta carries - I was impressed as my question were quite involved. No surprise my five items came to about $249.00. It's a bit ridiculous when I use it at least 3 times a day. So far the only company that usef to carry sweat proof makeup was Clinique and it was fantastic - Sadly it's been discontinued. It was a successful trip to the Gilroy Ulta, The employees are very helpful , the store is clean and all products shelves were neatly arranged. Best of all they carry a large selection of name...