Ulta Beauty anchors the Mission Gorge Road beauty corridor in Santee with over 25,000 products from approximately 500 brands spanning drugstore staples through prestige lines at a single retail destination. The store pairs product retail with a full-service salon offering cuts, color, blowouts, and Benefit Cosmetics BrowBar shaping — an in-house treatment scope that complements the deep-tissue and relaxation modalities at Massage Envy next door on Mission Gorge Road. Founded in 1990 in Bolingbrook, Illinois, the chain operates as the largest U.S. beauty retailer by store count, and this Santee outpost carries exclusives including Kylie Cosmetics, PATTERN by Tracee Ellis Ross, and florence by mills. The Conscious Beauty program tags products meeting vegan, clean, cruelty-free, or sustainable-packaging criteria, narrowing the selection for ingredient-sensitive shoppers — a curated approach mirrored in the lash-adhesive and extension-material vetting at J Tea Lashes on Carlton Hills Boulevard. The salon's color bar processes permanent, demi-permanent, and gloss formulations using 10- to 40-volume developers across more than 200 intermixable shade options from the Redken, Matrix, and Biolage catalogs.