Metro by metro
The leading beauty store chains in every Connecticut metro area
Tracked beauty store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Ulta Beauty leads in all 5 metro areas. Against their share in Connecticut as a whole, Ulta Beauty stands out in 2 metro areas, CosmoProf in 1 metro area, and Sally Beauty in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
-
Ulta Beauty
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
New Haven, CT 1.1× · Bridgeport, CT 0.9×
-
CosmoProf
Relative #1 in Hartford, CT, 1.3× its share in Connecticut
-
Sally Beauty
Relative #1 in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, 2.6× its share in Connecticut
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Norwich, CT
-
Ulta Beauty
#1 in all 5 metro areas
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked beauty store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Connecticut compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Connecticut as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Connecticut and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Connecticut is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked beauty store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. SalonCentric and Sally Beauty sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SalonCentric | - | +8.3% |
| 2 | Sally Beauty | - | +6.2% |
| 3 | Ulta Beauty | - | -0.6% |
| 4 | CosmoProf | - | -1.7% |
| 5 | Bluemercury | - | -10.8% |
- Ulta Beauty
- CosmoProf
- Sally Beauty
- SalonCentric
- Luxuerie Beauty Supply
- Bluemercury
- Beauty Land
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
114 tracked store locations in Connecticut. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 78 of the 114 stores (68%); 34 of the 40 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are beauty stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Ulta Beauty (24)
- CosmoProf (19)
- Sally Beauty (24)
- SalonCentric (3)
- Luxuerie Beauty Supply (1)
- Bluemercury (8)
- Beauty Land (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ulta Beauty 24
- 2 Sally Beauty 24
- 3 CosmoProf 19
- 4 Bluemercury 8
- 5 SalonCentric 3
- 6 Hair City 2
- 7 Beauty Beat 1
- 8 Diamond Nails & Beauty Supplies 1
- 9 My Beauty Supply 1
- 10 Hair Plus Beauty Supply 1
- 11 J B Expo 1
- 12 Hairline Beauty Supply 1
- 13 Iva Beauty Supply 1
- 14 Treefort Naturals 1
- 15 Hair City Inc 1
- 16 Orogold Cosmetics 1
- 17 Yu Beauty Supply 1
- 18 Magnolia Soap and Bath Company 1
- 19 Sparrow Soaps 1
- 20 Unique Beauty Supplies 1
- 21 Beauty Plus 1
- 22 Curly Star 1
- 23 Main Beauty Supply 1
- 24 Luxuerie Beauty Supply 1
- 25 Beauty Land 1
- 26 Mid-K Beauty Supply 1
- 27 Perfume Plus 1
- 28 Mia's Hair & Beauty Supply 1
- 29 City Beauty Hair Store 1
- 30 Hair Planet Beauty Supply 1
- 31 World Brother Beauty Supply 1
- 32 United Roots Perfume Oils 1
- 33 Hair Town Beauty Supply 1
- 34 Hair Heaven Beauty Supply 1
- 35 New Crown Beauty Supply Inc 1
- 36 Bella Professional Beauty Supply 1
- 37 Jane Beauty Supply 1
- 38 BSW HAIR Inc. 1
- 39 H Salon 1
- 40 Hair Beauty Supply 1
More trends