Pablo cashed in the Bonds from grandma and sank $50K into Allure. He has also run up almost $20K is back rent and $5K in products, and is now about $75K in debt. For his terribly native trouble he received a salon full of over the hill, loud mouth stylists, with more yap than talent. Pablo never attended beauty school as has no beauty training. So he has no training in beauty or business, and is therefore running his beauty business into the ground. He has holds no authority in the salon and his staff treats him like he was the owner of the local lunch cart, not the salon.

Tabatha sits down with Pablo and learns that he is also bartending to keep himself afloat because he only takes home about $400 a month as owner of Allure. Tabatha is in awe of Pablo's predicament and the two sit down for the "Men on Film" segment, ehem... "Surveillance" segment to assess the salon staff.

We first meet Joy, a stylist with 17 years of experience. Mostly in retirement communities???

Joy has the hair of an alcoholic 1950's housewife and the intellectual capacity and grace of a junkyard dog. She's smacking her gum while conducting a client's service and the camera pans down to reveal that Joyless is also wearing a outfit only fit for Dr. Frankenfurter's Jeff Spicoli costume -- fishnets and cut offs. Would you not run if this woman was your stylist?

So Joy is employeed to cater to the up-scale Transylvanian raver crowd... what other gems are in the rough of the Allure salon?

Alex is a new stylist with one year of experience in the salon. He has taken on the role of Allure Salon's Agador Spartacus and does more dancing than work.

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2009:

In conjunction with being the salon spectacle, Alex is also Allure's passive aggressive bouncer. In surveillance footage, we see a woman come in to ask for a price and is instead given the cold shoulder by Alex who never fetches Pablo to provide a quote for the plump patron.

Then we're back to Joy who is about to have a COPS-style fit because she thinks her client was undercharged. So she screams. At the owner. In the middle of the salon. And he takes it.

We're then treated to more footage of Pablo being ordered around the salon. If this were high school, Pablo would be the JV equipment manager, not the team captain. He fetches robes and mixes color and scuttles about staring at his feet and trying not to anger the hyenas he employs.

TCoif is not happy to see this young manager taking so much abuse (especially when it's not at her hands) and is ready to take over.

During "The Takeover" Tabatha addresses the staff and Alex is already wetting his faux-Armani boxer briefs. She will rule for a week and by the time the week's over, some of the staff may be unemployed. Time to addresses the staff...

Joy wants a high end clientele, but looks like all she can attract is cockroaches. Tabatha sets her eyes on her immediately and chastises her for the gum, the clothes and the 'tude.

Alex blew off a client and cost the salon money. Tabatha points out that clients = money. Alex is almost receptive to the criticism, or so we're led to believe, until Alex takes to confessional about to review Tabatha...

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