salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 5, Episode 9 · Aired June 6, 2013
Mani-Kir Royale Nail Salon
North Hollywood, California
No longer open. It has closed.
What happened after
The salon's official domain (manikirroyale.com) now redirects to a GoDaddy 'domain for sale' parking page. No active Facebook/Yelp content could be independently confirmed at 11008 W Magnolia Blvd.
What happened on the show
This season five episode took the format to a nail salon in North Hollywood, California. The show ran on Coffey's dependable sequence rather than a surviving narrative: an inside look at the operation, blunt assessments of the staff and owner, a team shakeup, and a renovation reveal. Because no synopsis survives for this installment, we do not reconstruct the specific scenes. The documented facts are the format and the setting, a Mani-Kir Royale nail salon on West Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood taken through the overnight process. Coffey's premise held here too, that a nail salon reflects its leadership and standards, and that the value of the intervention was an honest reset the owner could not reach alone. The point throughout was that a nail salon's consistency depends on a firm hand guiding it.
After the cameras left
Mani-Kir Royale has closed. The salon's official domain now redirects to a domain for sale parking page, and no active social or review content could be independently confirmed at the West Magnolia Boulevard address in North Hollywood. The evidence is inferential, a lapsed and parked domain rather than a direct closure statement, with no permanently closed tag or news confirmation found, so we hold the closure at low confidence and flag it for a future freshness pass.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.