salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired August 21, 2008
Ten Salon
Long Beach, California
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 1 · August 21, 2008 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Directory listings (Manta, Dun & Bradstreet, Cortera) and an Instagram account (@ten_salon, ~542 followers, 159 posts) for 'Ten Salon & Spa' at 2741 E 4th St match the original episode salon. No official website or independently dated recent post was found to confirm live current activity.
What happened on the show
The series premiere sent Tabatha Coffey into a hair salon in Long Beach, California, and the episode ran on the format that would define the whole show. Coffey, the blunt Australian stylist who made her name as a reality villain before turning fixer, drops into a struggling business, works and watches from the inside, then delivers assessments with no cushioning at all. What follows is her standard sequence: a hard look at the staff and the owner's leadership, a shakeup of who does what, and a renovation that culminates in a reveal meant to give the salon a fresh start. Because no episode synopsis survives for this early installment, the specific incidents are not on the record here, but the shape of the takeover is, and Ten Salon was the first business to go through it. The premise throughout is simple, that a salon reflects its owner, and that an honest outside eye can force a reset the people inside cannot manage alone.
After the cameras left
Ten Salon appears to still be operating. Directory listings and an Instagram account for Ten Salon and Spa at the same East 4th Street address in Long Beach match the original episode's business, though no official site or independently dated recent post surfaced to confirm current activity. We hold the open verdict at low confidence for that reason, resting on directory and address continuity rather than a live signal. The salon now does business under the slightly expanded Ten Salon and Spa name.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.