salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 3, Episode 8 · Aired February 7, 2011
A Star Is Born
Mission Viejo, California
Renamed since the episode, and still in business. It now goes by Crazy Hair Company.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 8 · February 7, 2011 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
A business-directory page for 'A Star Is Born Kids Hair Salon' (27541 Puerta Real) carries an owner-authored note: 'A Star is Born has now moved on to my new adventures at Crazy Hair Company. Where I do parties, event kids hair salon and party studio.'
What happened on the show
This third season episode brought the takeover to Mission Viejo, California, at a children's hair salon. The show ran on Coffey's reliable sequence, an inside look at how the salon operated, assessments delivered without softening, a staff shakeup, and a renovation ending in a reveal. Because no synopsis survives for this installment, we do not reconstruct the specific scenes. The documented ground is the format and the setting, an A Star Is Born kids hair salon on Puerta Real in Mission Viejo taken through the overnight process. Coffey's throughline held here too, that even a niche salon reflects its leadership, and that the value of the intervention was an honest reckoning before the renovation. Even a specialized children's salon, the show maintained, rises or falls on how well it is run.
After the cameras left
A Star Is Born appears to have moved on to a new venture. A business directory page for the children's hair salon carries an owner authored note saying the owner has moved on to a new venture, Crazy Hair Company, doing kids parties and event hair. The note is single sourced and owner authored, with no address or date given for the successor, so we hold the renamed verdict at moderate confidence. The original Mission Viejo salon identity has been retired.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.