"Nice Salon Poor Treatment and Conditions to work with!" - Hair Stylist SmartStyle Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I have a the Best opportunity to showcase my Talents & Skills as a Hair Designer!

Cons

Pay isn't up to par for the work performed, and We're treated not as skilled employees??? There's No actual Breakroom for us to sit down and have our lunch in! Being inside of "Walmart" we get a very unsteady cheap clientele that comes through our doors that are not always repeaters.

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5.0
Nov 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Lenient dress code, ample access to new clientele, video library to expand skills and product knowledge, PTO and benefits

Cons

The salons are almost always short staffed

1.0
Jan 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None, none, none, none, none

Cons

This workplace runs on vibes, guesswork, and unanswered messages. Upper Management had an impressive talent for being completely unreachable while simultaneously expecting miracles. Responses took days — sometimes weeks — but urgency was always your problem. Hiring approvals were blocked or endlessly delayed, leaving teams severely understaffed while leadership sat comfortably on the sidelines asking why things weren’t running perfectly. Accountability flowed strictly downward. Authority? None. Support? Cosmetic at best. Problems were ignored until they became emergencies, at which point they were blamed on the people who had been begging for help all along. Communication was inconsistent, expectations were unclear, and burnout was treated like a personal weakness instead of a predictable outcome of chronic mismanagement. If you enjoy being set up to fail, blamed for systemic issues, and gaslit into thinking you didn’t “try hard enough,” this is absolutely the place for you. Otherwise, save yourself the stress and look elsewhere.

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