salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 1, Episode 2 · Aired August 30, 2008
De Cielo Salon
Burbank, California
This one survived. It remains in business.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 2 · August 30, 2008 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Official site (decielospa.com) is live with active online booking and current promotions; Instagram @decielosalon has 6,156 followers. Address (921 W Magnolia Blvd) and phone match the original salon.
What happened on the show
Tabatha's second stop was a salon in Burbank, California, and like every early episode it followed the takeover template rather than any single dramatic thread. Coffey's method is consistent across the run: she embeds in the business, evaluates the staff and the owner without flattery, restructures the team where she finds dead weight or bad habits, and delivers a renovation and reveal to close the episode. The specific scenes from this installment are not preserved in any surviving synopsis, so we do not reconstruct them here. What is documented is the format and the business itself, a salon that had been operating in the Burbank area since 2007, placing it a couple of years into its life when the cameras arrived. The show's throughline held: Coffey's job was to make an owner confront how the salon actually ran and to hand back a sharper operation than the one she walked into.
After the cameras left
De Cielo is open and thriving. Its official site is live with active online booking and current promotions, and its Instagram carries several thousand followers, with the address and phone matching the original salon in Burbank. The business operates as De Cielo Salon and Spa, consistent with a run that began around 2007. The combination of a live booking site and an active social presence makes this a high confidence survivor, one of the show's clear long term wins.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.