salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 4, Episode 8 · Aired March 6, 2012
Flavio Beauty College
Torrance, California
Closed. The business shut its doors in 2025.
What happened after
Yelp lists the school as closed at 1978 W Carson St. A trade-press blog (BeautIndependent) states the school 'has been permanently closed and is no longer accepting new applications, as updated in March 2025.'
Closure date on record: 2025
What happened on the show
The expanded format reached a beauty college in Torrance, California, for this season four episode, a further step past the show's salon origins. The takeover method carried over to the training school setting: Coffey embeds in the business, delivers her blunt assessments, restructures the operation, and stages a renovation reveal. Because no synopsis survives for this installment, we do not reconstruct the specific incidents. The documented facts are the format, the season's broader mandate, and the setting, a Flavio beauty college on West Carson Street in Torrance taken through the overnight process. Coffey's premise held even in a school, that a struggling business reflects its leadership, and that an honest reset was the point of the visit. The show's claim held even inside a classroom, that leadership sets the tone a whole school runs on.
After the cameras left
Flavio Beauty College has closed. Yelp lists the school as closed at the West Carson Street address in Torrance, and a trade press blog states that the school was permanently closed and no longer accepting new applications as of a March 2025 update. The trade blog is secondary rather than primary news, so we hold the closure at moderate confidence, resting mainly on the Yelp closed status with the blog as corroboration. The Torrance beauty college is gone.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.