Pros
Great access to products, employee discount, flexible hours, you get to keep your tips, paid training work shops. If you work hard, advancement is very possible, but it only increases your work load and commission rates (which are not guaranteed).
Cons
Pay is minimum wage, and they make the commission sound good but it is only if a certain service goal is met over your entire shift. So if you meet the service goal of $15 in services an hour all day, but then the last hour is slow, your whole commission goes out the window. The prices are too high for the market (the salons are in walmart). You are required to work one full weekend a month, and one night each week and usually management doesn't care to give you a consistent schedule. As a manager 40 hours is required and you will not get paid time and a half if you have to work more hours. They will carry it over to the next pay period or make you work off the clock. A lot of the upper management are not licensed and do not understand cosmetology at all. HR is not sympathetic and usually very condescending.