salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 3, Episode 6 · Aired January 24, 2011
Touch of Elegance
Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 6 · January 24, 2011 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Facebook page shows an update dated August 20, 2024 (589 followers, 5/5, 38 reviews); Yelp lists current hours (52 reviews) at 1501 Main St Ste 20.
What happened on the show
This third season episode set the takeover in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. The show ran on Coffey's dependable structure rather than a surviving narrative: she immerses herself in the salon, sizes up the staff and owner without flattery, reshuffles the team, and stages a renovation reveal. Because no synopsis survives for this installment, we do not reconstruct the specific moments. The documented ground is the format and the setting, a Touch of Elegance salon and spa on Main Street in Tewksbury taken through the overnight process. Coffey's premise applied as always, that a salon reflects the person running it, and that the intervention existed to make an owner confront the operation honestly before the makeover reset the space. The point throughout was that a renovation only sticks if the owner keeps the standards up afterward.
After the cameras left
Touch of Elegance is open. Its Facebook page shows an update dated August 2024 with hundreds of followers and a top rating, and Yelp lists current hours at the Main Street address in Tewksbury. The dated 2024 social activity and current hours listing make this a high confidence survivor. The Tewksbury salon and spa came through its takeover and remained active years later.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.