Metro by metro
The leading beauty store chains in every South Carolina metro area
Tracked beauty store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Ulta Beauty leads in all 7 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in South Carolina as a whole, Sally Beauty stands out in 3 metro areas, Ulta Beauty in 2 metro areas, and SalonCentric in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Sally Beauty
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Columbia, SC 0.8× · Spartanburg, SC 1.6× · Charlotte, NC (SC part) 0.8×
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Ulta Beauty
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Charleston, SC 1.1× · Myrtle Beach, SC 1.3×
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SalonCentric
Relative #1 in Greenville, SC, 2.4× its share in South Carolina
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Hilton Head Island, SC · Sumter, SC
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Florence, SC
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Ulta Beauty
#1 in all 7 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Hilton Head Island, SC · Sumter, SC
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked beauty store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to South Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in South Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in South Carolina 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 South Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in South Carolina. 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. Hair Zone and SalonCentric sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Hair Zone | ▲2 | +16.3% |
| 2 | SalonCentric | ▲1 | +8.8% |
| 3 | Ulta Beauty | - | +4.5% |
| 4 | Sally Beauty | - | -0.8% |
| 5 | Beauty Mart | - | -2.9% |
| 6 | CosmoProf | ▼1 | -3.9% |
| 7 | Beauty World | - | -8.0% |
| 8 | Star Beauty Supply | - | -11.8% |
| 9 | Bluemercury | ▼1 | -17.4% |
| 10 | Beauty Line | - | -19.9% |
| 11 | King's Beauty Supply | ▼1 | -27.7% |
- Ulta Beauty
- Sally Beauty
- SalonCentric
- CosmoProf
- Star Beauty Supply
- Hair Boss Beauty Supply
- Glamour Beauty Supply
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
225 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 105 of the 225 stores (47%); 80 of the 101 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 (27)
- Sally Beauty (45)
- SalonCentric (14)
- CosmoProf (14)
- Star Beauty Supply (3)
- Hair Boss Beauty Supply (1)
- Glamour Beauty Supply (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Sally Beauty 45
- 2 Ulta Beauty 27
- 3 SalonCentric 14
- 4 CosmoProf 14
- 5 King's Beauty Supply 5
- 6 Beauty Mart 4
- 7 Bluemercury 4
- 8 Beauty Line 3
- 9 Hair Zone 3
- 10 Beauty World 3
- 11 Star Beauty Supply 3
- 12 Kim's Beauty Supply 2
- 13 Diva Beauty Supply 2
- 14 Discount Beauty Supply 2
- 15 Beauty Plus 2
- 16 Southern Beauty 2
- 17 Best Beauty Supply 2
- 18 Carolina Beauty 2
- 19 Unique Beauty Supply 2
- 20 Oxford Perfumes and Jewelry 2
- 21 Young's Beauty Supply 2
- 22 Boom Boom Beauty Supply #1 1
- 23 Lucy's Beauty Supply 1
- 24 Belle Beauty 1
- 25 Wigs and Things 1
- 26 American Beauty Outlet 1
- 27 Queen Hair & Beauty Supply 1
- 28 Beauty Supply and Beyond 1
- 29 Gallery 42 1
- 30 TNT Beauty Supply 1
- 31 Venus Beauty Supply 1
- 32 Southern Stranz 1
- 33 Fragrancia 1
- 34 Clements Ferry Barbers 1
- 35 Beauty A Plus 1
- 36 Heaven Scent 1
- 37 For U Beauty LLC 1
- 38 Majestic Nail Supply SC 1
- 39 Jazzy Nails 1
- 40 Sue Beauty Supply 1
- 41 JD's Fashions 1
- 42 Hollywood Hemp 1
- 43 ByEssence Beauty Supply 1
- 44 Bee Wise Organics 1
- 45 Beauty Source LLC 1
- 46 Jo's Beauty Supply 1
- 47 Avon By Wendy 1
- 48 Cherry's Beauty Supply 1
- 49 BLT Beauty Supply 1
- 50 The Garden Soapery 1
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