POSTS TAGGED: salon

A beauty school gets turnaround, Tabs has a new beau, and curmudgeonly Mr. P shows his soft side. Sorta.

Howdy, Gasmii!  So glad to be back on the Gasm – and thanks to all of you who followed us to Facebook and back. It was a hell of a week last week.  First the hacking, then Davy Jones died.  LOVED him!  Total first crush.  And then one of my cats, who has an autoimmune [...]

Tabs does her best, but H Design owner Brian is beyond help.

Salon Bridgette (it’s French!) gets turned around by Tabs.

Tabs confronts the host of issues in Salon Bridgette, including a do-nothing owner, a spoiled brat daughter and unmotivated staff.

Pat’s Hair Shoppe rebuilds its reputation in a pretty new shop.

Tabs is back to kicking a-s and taking names!

Tabs works her magic on Ripples, a Long Beach gay bar. Head on over there, they’ve got water!

Hi, Gasmii!!  So sorry for the delay.  The Gasm has had some “issues”.   They’re also interfering with picture posting.  So this recap is a bit more text-heavy than usual.  I’m sure that will be resolved soon! So here we are at season 4 of Tabatha Takes Over (a/k/a Tabatha’s Salon Takeover).  This year, she’s branching [...]

Fakey fake fakers!

Miss T visits Avanti Salon in Boston, Massachusetts.

Is this a salon, or a BUSINESS?

Miss T is back with a vengeance.

Acrylic nails and trainwrecks!

In Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood stands Chicago Male, a men’s only salon owned by Scott. Scott also owns the most substantial chin implant seen on screen since Mickey Rourke in Sin City. Chin-tastic! Lakeview is home to a large gay community and as Scott is quick to point out, “there are 55,000 men out there!” Looking [...]

Episode 3 of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover brings our angel of discipline to Bang Salon in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – because Bang is run by a douchebag. I take that back. Not “a” douchebag, THE douchebag. Darren opened Bang Salon almost six years ago — so if the salon were a child, that child would now [...]

Episode two of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover brings Tabatha Coffey to Miami, Florida to meet with Pablo, owner of Allure Salon. Pablo is barely able to drink and but is on the brink of bankruptcy as owner of the Coconut Grove salon. Pablo took a job at the front desk of Allure out of high school, [...]

After 23 years in business, Eddie is facing hard times at Orbit Salon. Recession? No. Advent of root touch-up? No. A filthy hair trap staffed by self absorbed workers? Bingo. Someone will be castrated. Luckily one woman is on hand to fight the powers of laziness and apathy with only a perfect platinum coif and [...]

Boy, it has been a long and strange eight weeks, hasn’t it? Never in life did I think I would have the opportunity to see so many walking doormat salon owners, poorly skilled colorists, badly-hygiened cutters and downright stupid support staff. We’ve seen just about every kind of managenent style, too… starting with the Micro- [...]

Sometimes I sit in my cubicle at work and stare off into space having one of my many Lottery Fantasies… one of which involves having my own adult film production company (mercifully for you, O Beloved Gasmii, I will not go into detail about it other than to say it would feature hefty men like [...]

When I was still a practicing Catholic (I say “practicing” because I never got really good at it… you know, the whole “I-go-to-church-on-Sundays-so-that-gives-me-carté-blanche-to-be-a-raging-dickwad-towards-the-rest-of-humanity-the-other-six-days-of-the-week” thing) my little sister and I co-owned a concession stand at the Bingo games on Sunday Night at Our Lady Of Perpetual Help… …except we always called it “Our Lady Of Perpetual [...]

A good friend of mine who is a music composer (and his boyfriend, who is an animator) have been at the New York Television Festival this week… I got a text message from him on Saturday that said “Girl, I am fifteen feet away from Tabatha Coffey… THE one!” I immediately texted him back threatening [...]

After only two episodes of this show, I have fallen deeper in love with Tabatha Coffey than I already was before! What is it about searing criticism delivered with a foreign accent that makes it so much more palatable? I don’t know, but I, for one, find it incredibly fascinating… and I think the next [...]

Have you ever met someone who so completely and utterly and pointlessly pushes every single irritation, aggravation and frustration button that you have ever been wired with, mostly all at the same time, and they are amazingly able to accomplish this just by opening their mouth?… …this is him… You’re all in for a real [...]

Welcome everyone! This is J-Mo, and I am the wacky fatboy nutjob who has been guiding the ‘gasm through the bitch-infested waters of Shear Genius Season 2 these past two months, which has been extremely rewarding (and sleep-depriving). I was actually a fan of Shear Genius from the beginning, and my absolute favorite stylestant on [...]