Trends · data through September 2026

Beauty Stores in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 217 stores from 103 beauty store chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Ulta Beauty grew fastest over the last year, ahead of SalonCentric and CosmoProf.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
103
Tracked stores
217
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Ulta Beauty and SalonCentric sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ulta Beauty - +5.5%
2 SalonCentric - +2.7%
3 CosmoProf - -1.1%
4 Super Beauty - -2.1%
5 Sally Beauty - -3.4%
6 Beauty 4U - -3.9%
7 Beauty Island - -4.1%
8 Bluemercury - -19.8%
  • Ulta Beauty
  • Beauty 4U
  • Super Beauty
  • Sally Beauty
  • CosmoProf
  • Beauty Town
  • Beauty Island
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

217 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 96 of the 217 stores (44%); 88 of the 103 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are beauty stores, the same share as across District of Columbia.

  • Ulta Beauty (25)
  • Beauty 4U (9)
  • Super Beauty (6)
  • Sally Beauty (30)
  • CosmoProf (15)
  • Beauty Town (1)
  • Beauty Island (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Sally Beauty 30
  • 2 Ulta Beauty 25
  • 3 Bluemercury 17
  • 4 CosmoProf 15
  • 5 Beauty 4U 9
  • 6 SalonCentric 7
  • 7 Super Beauty 6
  • 8 Beauty Island 6
  • 9 Beauty Max 2
  • 10 Beauty Mart 2
  • 11 KC Beauty 2
  • 12 Beauty Supply 2
  • 13 Paul's Beauty Warehouse 2
  • 14 K C Beauty Mart 2
  • 15 5 Star Beauty 2
  • 16 Sarah's Beauty Supply 1
  • 17 Sugar and Spruce 1
  • 18 Beauty Discounters 1
  • 19 Shamreeds Body Oils 1
  • 20 ab beauty supply llc 1
  • 21 GIGIs Beauty 1
  • 22 Arielle Shoshana 1
  • 23 Variedades Mimi 1
  • 24 Sunlight Nail Supply 1
  • 25 Lucky Cense 1
  • 26 Mienne Beauty Supply 1
  • 27 Beauty Plus 1
  • 28 Renee Beauty Supplies 1
  • 29 Sahvah Beauty 1
  • 30 Amazing Beauty Supplies 1
  • 31 French and European Perfume 1
  • 32 Karis Wigs & Beauty 1
  • 33 Hair Zone 1
  • 34 Apex Beauty Supply 1
  • 35 Penamang Beauty Supply 1
  • 36 Sunlight Nail and Beauty Supply 1
  • 37 Penn Beauty Supply 1
  • 38 Joyful Bath Co. 1
  • 39 Glenmont Beauty Supply 1
  • 40 FSK Beauty & Wig 1
  • 41 Beauty USA 1
  • 42 B2B Beauty Supply 1
  • 43 Ann's Beauty Supplies and Wigs 1
  • 44 New York Salon 1
  • 45 Sage & Stone Apothecary 1
  • 46 Silver Spring Beauty Supply 1
  • 47 Bella Crown 1
  • 48 CurlH2O 1
  • 49 Hidden Gym DC 1
  • 50 Marie's Beauty Supply 1

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