Ulta’s Early Beauty Sale Runs Through November 21. Sephora Has Published the Next Week’s Calendar.

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If you need a lipstick or a hair tool before Thanksgiving, Ulta is the live sale. Sephora's official Cyber Week preview is a calendar, not a checkout button — yet.

By the Nightlife Report Editors · Los Angeles · Nov. 13, 2026

The useful split, this week, is simple. Ulta is already selling the holiday. Sephora has handed you a calendar so you can wait with a list.

Ulta Beauty's official Early Black Friday page says the event started October 25, 2026, with new offers each week on makeup, skin care, hair, body, fragrance and wellness, shoppable in stores, at ulta.com and in the app. A footnote on that page, checked November 13, 2026, morning Pacific Time, says the promotion "Ends 11/21 at 11:59pm CT," while supplies last, and that some offers may be limited to Platinum and Diamond Ulta Beauty Rewards members logged into their accounts. Products in the event are described as ineligible for extra coupon codes.

Be precise about the headline discount, because the same page does not agree with itself. The overview text describes "savings of up to 50% off top beauty brands." The FAQ on the same URL says, "You can save up to 40% off select beauty products from top brands." We are not going to pick a winner. Discounts vary by item and by week; read the product tile.

What was current this morning is a module labeled "Early Black Friday, Nov 13–14" and "Two day online deals." In that module, the page displayed a Shark Beauty FlexStyle IonCurl at $249.99. We are reporting that as it appeared on the sale page, not as a guarantee that every attachment, color or store will match. The New York Post, on November 6, also described an Early Black Friday window through November 21 and named clinical and makeup standbys including Clinique Moisture Surge. That recap is a week old, and at least one offer it mentioned — a GIFTS threshold code — was already dated to end November 8, so we are not repeating expired codes.

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If you can wait, Sephora has been unusually transparent. Its official Cyber Week 2026 preview lists rotating "Only at Sephora" 30 percent-off brand days, including Kenra Professional, Biossance and COLOR WOW on Sunday, November 22; OLEHENRIKSEN and Milk Makeup on November 23; Youth To The People, Laura Mercier and Kiehl's on November 24; EILISH FRAGRANCES, Living Proof, Viktor&Rolf and Lancôme on November 25; fresh, Skinfix and Sunday Riley on November 26; Fenty Beauty, Paula's Choice and Farmacy on November 27; and tarte, Drunk Elephant and Peter Thomas Roth on November 28, with Ariana Grande, Marc Jacobs Fragrances and NARS on November 30. A Black Friday sale, the same page says, "Starts 11/26 at 6pm PT." Separate windows include up to 30 percent off select Korean beauty (Beauty of Joseon and Biodance are named) and select fragrances from November 21 to 30, and 25 percent off select Sol de Janeiro from November 22 to 30. Free sample bags are listed as starting November 23, while supplies last.

Nordstrom's beauty calendar, as reported by USA Today on November 6, is later still: up to 30 percent off from November 19 through December 1, including names such as Charlotte Tilbury. We could not independently load Nordstrom's live grid this morning, so that remains a dated retail timetable, not a shelf check.

Shop the live Ulta window if you need the thing in the next few days. Use Sephora's preview if you can stand to wait, and if you can stand to refresh a page at 6 p.m. Pacific Time on November 26. Either way, the price that matters is the one on the product page at checkout, not the one in a roundup — including this one.

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