Ulta Beauty Salon

ALENA! That’s the name you should remember when you go visit the salon! She’s so good at what she does, so attentive, so Welcoming and most of all super sweet ! She’s a master stylist at the salon so trust when I say you pay what you get for ! She’s gotten me very light and I have very dark roots so that’s a plus and my hair is still super healthy ! Thank you Alena !!

Best haircut I’ve EVER had from Ray! My hair is long and I’m extremely picky! I can’t believe how much movement and shape it has. My hair has never been so beautiful!

Ray is amazing!!! He’s is very nice and he is a wonderful stylist! He listens and is attentive to what you want done. He does awesome color, cut, and style… you name it he does a great job! He is also very knowledgeable on haircare products. I would recommend him to anyone!

Olsie did my hair terrible experience!!!, I don’t recommend him ‚.i ask for honey blonde color and now my color hair and highlights look orange yellow with red…, I’m very upset ‚. Ray is the best ask for him, he is vey nice and excellent stylist in ulta Salon

I made an appointment to get my hair and makeup done before a big event. The young lady who was to style my hair was not given the proper instructions by whom ever runs the Desk to call me back, when I had decided not to do a blowout but wanted an updo. When I finally did speak with her and she is a very sweet girl that’s why I don’t want to name her, I was told updos were not her forte. 30 bobby pins later she got my hair into some sort of an updo but at that point I was just over it and was ready to move on to get my makeup done. I was extremely specific on how I wanted my makeup done. 30 minutes later I took a look in the mirror and this girl had not a clue on how to apply makeup she needed to bring in another young lady someone who I will also keep not name, as she was also very sweet and did try to help when I showed her the picture of the makeup that I wanted she took one look at the picture and said oh honey I could not even get close to that but I’ll do the best I can. she got my makeup close but a little overdone it was too dark around the eyes and I already have very dark eyes to begin with. would I recommend this place to have your hair and makeup done absolutely not as sweet as these girls were and as hard as they tried they were just not talented enough to really do what was asked. Totally my fault to some degree I should have gone for a test run prior to the appointment. The entire appointment was over 3 hours and I was ready to lose it because I needed to be at my event in less than 2 hours. It was kind of unfortunate that these girls are not trained properly to really apply makeup they’re there to sell a product give you a brief little look at what you could possibly look like if you buy the product however for full over makeover, hire a makeup artist for an event or go to one of the makeup counters and have a professional a real professional do your makeup because Ulta is not it.

I try to avoid coming to this ulta because they are either always sold out of a product or because of the customer service. Don’t get me wrong there are some sweethearts there but then there are employees who won’t even acknowledge you, and don’t know their products. You ask them if they have a product in Stock and won’t even check in the back or around the store and just say no. I’ve gone into plenty other ulta’s that are much more organized as well.

Stephanie the hair stylist and colorist is a gem in the rough! Not your everyday find. She is great!

Ulta Beauty Salon– Aventura
The hair salon — Olsi is a 5 star world class stylist who delivers spot-​on styling and coloring with impeccable Euro flair that can only be delivered by this European class hair stylist from Rome. I travel all over the world and have paid triple the amount for services that compare with these.
Thank you and continue the good work,
Valerie and Ian

I was hopeful after reading the good reviews about «Master Stylist» Alena, but I was totally let down. I was met with someone who dismissed what I wanted (was told that the style that I wanted was outdated and wouldn’t work unless I wore my hair straight, I usually do wear my hair straight…), I was not asked how I usually style my hair (so I left with my hair curly, not straight), wrong products were recommended for my hair (I asked for help controlling frizz for my thick hair and was told that my hair wasn’t thick, that was news to me, and its Miami so there is nothing that can be done about frizz) and she was rushed the whole time (she was working on another client at the same time). All in all, I will not be going back to this salon. Not once did I feel welcome or comfortable.

Stephanie has magical hands! She is an incredible talent I am so very happy with my color! My hair feels like absolute silk! The contrast of the color is absolutely stunning! She is also such a sweet welcoming person!!! Will surely be back and I recommend her highly!!!

Olsi is amazing! I have not gotten a real hair cut in years, out of pure fear of them screwing it up. I went in for a hair cut, trying to change it up. I walked in and didn’t want to remove the length and he agreed, I felt great since some reviews say he’s super honest. But then honesty struck! He said, I don’t know what your boobs look like under the drape, big, small, it doesn’t matter bc if you walked into a room I wouldn’t look at your hair color. I’d look at your boobs, we must do something about this color! I died from laughter! The man knows what looks good, coming from a type A, control freak! Relax! I mean tell the man if you refuse black hair, and a bob cut, but he does know what looks good with skin tones and face shape. I kinda would trust him with his eyes closed, ok no that’s a lie.
Staff was great! He’s from Rome, went to the Vidal Sassoon school in Italy, man knows his ish.
He fixed my color to brighten my face up. He’s amazing at the bayalage. Very into the natural look. From the girl who has done foils with high and low lights for a decade this was a perfect change! Going back dec 18 for my base to be fixed, can’t wait!

This review is of the Ulta Store and NOT the salon located inside. On more than 3 occasions, I have had horrible service here… the staff are either disengaged and mad about life or too occupied because there are not enough people on the floor (and it wasn’t even busy like say, Sephora or MAC) when I have gone in. Waiting for assistance, I always felt like I had to hover around the person being helped so I wouldn’t be skipped and boy, are the customers there really peculiar, take forever, and get really pissy if you have a *brief* question to ask. Did I miss something? Is this a high-​end, personal shopping service? It might just be Aventura. Anyway, what made me NEVER return was the attitude of the floor manager when I politely replied that I didn’t find everything OK– I wasn’t attended to for a ½hr and there were only three employees visible on the floor. She sharply said that there were more than enough staff on duty and shrugged. So, the customer is not right? No apology or attempt to remedy the situation? I’ll never return.

This review is for a specific stylist, not the actual establishment.
New Stylist deserves a new review. If you want to cut your hair super short and edgy the guy to see is Olsie. Not only is he good with haircuts, but also with color, and he will be brutally honest with you, and he won’t do anything to your hair that will mar his good reputation… it doesn’t matter how much you might want that haircut or color that you’ve got no business rocking to begin with, he won’t do it, if it doesn’t suit you.
My natural hair color is dark auburn, so I started dying it funny shades of red before it became popular with every dick and tom in town. I had medium length hair and I decided to get a bob before every other chick at work decided to do the same thing… catch my drift here. So I walked into the salon and watch him work. He was working on this poor girl’s bad hair color, which quite frankly I thought «this guy is a stylist not a magician». Nevertheless, by the time he was done with this girl’s head, I was absolutely impressed with the color correction he had done… I did ask the girl for her phone number, and agreed to meet for coffee two weeks after because I wanted to see whether the color correction held up and it did!
My turn. I walked in and I told Olsie what I wanted, and he chuckled, and he said «NO». He proceeded to tell me how the haircut I was sporting did not really bring out my face, and that the color was absolutely awful… flat out he told me «You are a short hair girl, my dear, and I don’t care if you are kind of a natural redhead, it is just awful.» I was not offended at all, and I proceeded to interview him about his training, and I was satisfied because I knew he just didn’t go to beauty school for nine months and then got a piece of paper saying he is stylist. He actually did a 3 year apprenticeship, and then got accepted into beauty academy… all that said his work speaks for itself… you wouldn’t go to a doctor who didn’t to his internship would you? Why would you do the same thing with your damn head?
At any rate, we proceeded to chop off my hair in stages, until finally two weeks ago, I went pixie short with no bangs, and I love it! You know a hairdresser knows how to cut hair, when they take you all the way short and you don’t look like a dog recovering from mange. He understands the difference between giving a female a short pixie cut, and the difference between giving a woman a man haircut… NOT the same thing.
Olsie is great at what he does. If you ask for his opinion, don’t be pissy if you don’t like what he has to say, at least he’s more honest than yourself and your mirror.

Had a bad experience today. So went in to find some makeup, the manager led me to meet one of the makeup artists to help me find the right makeup. The issue I had is the cleanness of the makeup brushes. She also helped a customer prior to me and did not wash her hands. It bothered me that the brushes were not cleaned and she was using them. Also she used her hands. I feel like if you touch people’s faces you need to think about cleaning your hands and your equipment. I was disappointed and unhappy. I would never use this makeup artist, I hope not all of the makeup artists there are like that. I have been to Sephora and see them clean their brushes all the time. I should have mentioned something while I was there. I had to remove my makeup as my skin was irritated. It also detoured me from purchasing the products.

I had my hair done a few months ago by Stephanie!!! She is wonderful!!! If you have blonde hair she’s the best!!! I’m very picky when it comes to my hair, I mean what woman is not ! That’s the first thing people see ! My hair always turns out the best, I highly recommend her ! :) thanks so much steph !

Ever since my BFF, that was also my stylist, moved away I have been searching, very unsuccessfully, for someone capable of doing blonde. I have been striped, sheer white, yellow, and most recently orange. And, let’s not forget I have paid a pretty penny to each of these ‘stylist’ to destroy my hair! I went into Ulta to see Olsi after reading Unilocal reviews, because I needed a corrective color… I’m not too keen on tangerine hair at my age.
He was just about as horrified as I was at the mess on top of my head, he told me what we needed to do. He could only tone it because if we added low lights (which I was insisting he do) or colored it again right away it would severely damage my already over-​processed hair. So I had to wait a few weeks, but it did look significantly better after the toning.
I went back to see him a few weeks later and he started the process of getting me back to looking as the ‘natural blonde’ that I am. ;)
I’ve since gone back again and my hair looks so healthy, it has grown and is shiny and I am so pleased. Olsi is the kind of stylist that won’t just do what you ask of him if he thinks it’s not right for your hair. He’s going to explain the why & how and give his educated opinions, which you can’t help but listen to, and then are happy that you did.
As hesitant as I was to go into a ‘makeup’ store to get my hair done, I am so glad that I did! Ulta Salon in Aventura is as good as any of the other hoity toity salons that charge you 3 times as much and Olsi is a master of color and cut! I highly recommend!

Having recently moved to Florida, I tried many high end hair salons only to be left extremely disappointed and dismayed. Most high end places charge anywhere from 300 – 500 $ for color, cut and blow dry. Most hair salons here on Miami don’t know what they are doing, especially with color. Then I met Olsi at my office and he told me he was a hairdresser at Ulta beauty on Biscayne. I immediately thought to myself, «there’s a hair salon in Ulta?». Now, I’m not going to pretend I’m not a snob, because after all, I know I am. There was no way I was going to do my hair there. Then some high end salon literally screwed up my color so badly I was desperate. I called Olsi and he took me right away. OMG. Now all my girls go to him and we are beyond happy (especially with the savings!). There is no way I’m ever going anywhere else!

Romanza !!! Ahhhhh afraid to to all you Unilocalers how wonderful this woman is !!! Hands down best facial ever. Only draw back its on the floor so bring earplugs but romanza will have you so relaxed you will forget all about the outside noise!

I haven’t tried any beauty services at this particular Ulta, but I have shopped at this location. This is probably one of the better Utla stores I’ve shopped at. I’ve noticed this store is usually very clean and organized. I have noticed employees don’t constantly bug you in this store, which is a huge bonus! Some Ulta stores basically have their employees follow you around, but this location doesn’t. My only issue with this store is the stock selection. Sometimes they don’t always have what I’m looking, which is my main problem with this store.

If you come here you must make an appointment with Olsi! He is amazing. Very creative and honest. If you want something done and he doesn’t think it’ll look good on you he will let you know. He also gives advice on how to properly take care of your hair and the color.
I met him while trying to buy shampoo at this store and he took one look at my hair and told me what I needed to help make it healthier. I had a previous hair stylist whom I loved but Olsi definitely topped that so much that I’ve switched to him and come to get my hair done regularly. Aside from this, the salon is very clean and the staff are very nice. I’ve never had to wait too long. They definitely keep on top of their appointments.