SmartStyle reviews

Managers that work for SmartStyles are overly worked and under paid. I started as a stylist making $7.25hr and I applied for the manager's position thinking that it would increase my pay. Pay did increase from $7.25 to $8.00 an hour. With far much more work than one would ever want to work for as little as the pay. SmartStyles never increases your pay after 90days, 180days not even a year later. They set this ridiculous goal to meet in guest service sales and retail service sales knowing that its hardly ever accomplished by a full-time manager that has only 2-3 stylist in her salon and she the manager has to cover the salon working 55-65 hrs a week. Due to under staffing stylist calling out and know coverage. Among a source of other things I would never work for this company again and I encourage anyone that plans to work for them to please do your due diligence with the company. It's not a company that you can work for, get paid bring home a pay check to feed and take care of your family with. The pressure is put on you to sell their product that cost them little to nothing to make and sell it for far more than what it should cost. And pay you if you meet your sales quote a fraction of the amount you sold. If you don't meet your retail sales goal for that pay period oh well the company made tons of money$$$$ but you didn't and you still sold the product.

No opportunities to travel for advanced training. Training was done through watching dvds. No opportunities to attend hair shows as a team.