salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 3, Episode 1 · Aired December 6, 2010
Mia Bella
San Bruno, California
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 1 · December 6, 2010 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Yelp shows 547 reviews (4.5/5) with current hours (Tue-Sat) at 725 Camino Plaza; Instagram bio states 'WE ARE OPEN! PLEASE BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT ONLINE.'
What happened on the show
Season three opened by taking the takeover to San Bruno, California. The show followed Coffey's set structure rather than a surviving narrative: she immerses herself in the salon, sizes up the staff and owner with characteristic bluntness, reshuffles the team, and stages a renovation reveal. No synopsis has survived to detail the specific moments, so those stay unstated here. The documented facts are the format and the setting, a Mia Bella hair salon on Camino Plaza in San Bruno taken through the overnight process. Coffey's premise applied as always, that a salon's fortunes track its leadership and standards, and that the intervention existed to make an owner confront both honestly before the renovation reset the space. The larger point was that no amount of new decor holds without a stronger operation standing behind it.
After the cameras left
Mia Bella is open. Yelp shows several hundred reviews with a strong rating and current weekly hours at the Camino Plaza address in San Bruno, and the salon's Instagram bio states plainly that it is open and taking online bookings. The heavy review activity and active booking prompt make this a high confidence survivor. The business is now styled Salon Mia Bella, keeping its core name, and continues to operate.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.