HIGHLIGHTS • Building a Dream Career Together w/Tanya and Neeko
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this engaging conversation, Tanya and Neeko Abriol discuss their marriage, their careers as celebrity hairdressers, and creating community in their workplace. They share insights on maintaining a strong relationship while working together, and offer valuable advice for young hairdressers starting their careers.
If you want to learn more about finding passion in hairdressing, the importance of specialization, and the evolution of salon concepts, this is the episode for you. Additionally, they introduce their new product line, @miramepro, and share hair horror stories that highlight challenges faced in the profession that you can learn from.
Key Takeaways:
• Surfing as a therapeutic outlet for Neeko
• Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect in marriage
• The value of community and education in the hair industry
• Encouraging young hairdressers to gain experience in salons
• Specialization can lead to greater fulfillment
• Fostering creativity and collaboration in the salon industry
• Assisting as a valuable experience for new hairdressers
• How digital education can enhance learning opportunities
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:06.6 | Hey everybody. It's Harry here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. We have some very exciting |
| 0:11.7 | information. Salon Republic just opened a brand new location in Philadelphia, our first ever |
| 0:17.7 | East Coast location. You can go to Salonrepublic.com to book your space and find |
| 0:22.7 | your new home. A little bit later, we'll have a new location in Jankentown, a little north of Philadelphia. |
| 0:28.7 | Go to salamrepublic.com and get notified and we're going to be beginning tours. |
| 0:33.4 | Now on our episode with Tanya and Nico from The Lab Lounge. |
| 0:39.6 | So I'm going to introduce you guys. You guys have a lot to introduce because you both have done so many things. |
| 0:47.1 | You're basically you're a married couple. |
| 0:49.4 | You're both celebrity hairdressers and studio owners at Salon Republic Beverly Hills. |
| 0:54.1 | They're kissing now on the |
| 0:55.4 | podcast. That might be the first ever kiss in eight years on the hair game podcast. Right there. |
| 1:02.6 | Give it a minute. We're very, we're very affectionate. We're going to get into why it works. |
| 1:06.8 | 40 years combined industry experience between the two of you. |
| 1:16.2 | Nico, you know, for your multi-texture hair expertise and your short hair game. |
| 1:19.2 | You have, you've owned five salons. |
| 1:21.7 | Boy, that's, there's a lot of stories in there, I bet. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah, totally. You currently see guests in your private studio at Salon Republican Beverly Hills. |
| 1:28.3 | Tanya, your renowned hairdresser and colorist who collaborates with top designers and creates |
| 1:33.0 | runway hairstyles. You've been on the cover of magazines, all the good ones, you know, the |
| 1:38.8 | vogue, the Ls, the peoples, the everything. Back to Nico. Nigo, you're an edgy. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm just, I'm reading your intro because I started writing mine and I was like, I can't, |
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