Welcome to Elgin Charles of Beverly Hills, the prestigious black hair salon located in the heart of the world famous 90210 zip code. In the premiere episode, Elgin must juggle his plans to find a 2nd salon location, handle his A-list clients, and deal with a crew of stylists able to simultaneously cause drama and comedy at the drop of a hat.
Elgin meets with a series of consultants who have some seriously out-of-the-box ideas to launch his product line. Katrina gets to work her hair magic on a deserving mom in desperate need of a makeover. Sean puts his new assistant, Syreeta, through boot camp, and Lolita finds herself the unwilling object of a Hollywood tour bus driver's affections.
To give back, Elgin and Katrina go to a local community center to speak to kids but find that winning them over isn't as easy as they thought. Back at the salon, Lolita deals with a pushy bridal party while Sean tries to fend off a drop-in by a health inspector.
On a lunch date, Elgin gets mixed signals when his ex-wife Jackée offers him an intriguing proposition. And desperate to find a reason to attend a Florida hair show, Lolita and Katrina start a text war with a rival salon in Miami.
Elgin and the gang jet to South Beach to compete in a mano a mano hair battle with a smack-talking Florida salon. Before they hit the stage, though, Katrina grapples with a really bad hair day, Sean goes on a date with a hunky wrestler, and Elgin seriously considers opening a second salon in the Sunshine state.
Elgin and ex-wife, Jackée, agree to go into business together. Their first project? An infomercial for Elgin's product line! And on the stylists' side of the salon, Kat's claws come out when Sean's cocky assistant, Syreeta, begins to act like she runs the place.
In order to fill empty stations at the salon and expand his brand, Elgin decides to diversify and hire two new stylists: a smooth-talking barber and a beautiful blonde white hairdresser.
Lolita tries to convince everyone that the used weave her friend sent her belongs to a world famous celebrity. But when a troublesome client gets into it with the stylists, Lolita gets distracted and her "collectible" weave goes missing. And when Elgin finds out where the alleged celebrity's hair ends up -- he's not happy.
In the midst of making plans for his new salon location in Miami, Elgin gets frustrated when Sean goes AWOL from the salon to pursue his dream of being a singer. Meanwhile Lolita goes on a blind date with a doctor who makes a shocking suggestion about her weight.
Just days from leaving for Miami for the six-month task of opening his new South Beach location, Elgin still doesn't know who should run Elgin Charles of Beverly Hills while he's gone. His decision's made even more difficult when Katrina, Sean, and Lolita go AWOL. Are Elgin's stylists using his impending absence as an excuse to jump ship to a different salon?
