“Allow your inner beauty to truly shine through” – Sapphira Odessa.
Is there a real Sapphira behind the Sapphira Spa and Salon? Yes. In 2003, native New Yorker Sapphira Odessa was seeking a career change. Growing weary from working long hours as a pharmaceutical consultant and medical sales representative, she decided to tap into her strong interest in the spa and beauty world. The daughter of a chemist and a cosmetics saleswoman, Sapphira was already familiar with the enchanting world of beauty.
Encouraged by her friends and family, Sapphira quit her job and traveled the world from Europe to the Middle East to Australia, learning about new body treatments and asking women—and men!—of all ages what they looked for in a luxury spa. Truly listening to what people said about body treatments, and taking their words into consideration, Sapphira knew that opening a spa was indeed her life’s mission.
Always a people-person and always looking for ways to make others feel good both on the inside and the outside, Sapphira wanted to create an ideal spa experience for the people she met on her beauty journey around the globe. Along the way, she became a licensed esthetician and massage therapist.
When the opportunity came to invest in a spa on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Sapphira decided to follow her dreams and open up a day spa in New York where the everyday hard-working woman can relax, unwind, and escape from the pressures of the daily grind which Sapphira knew all too well.
Working with a team of positive investors who believed in Sapphira and her mission to open a spa, the Sapphira Spa and Salon officially opened its doors in September 2005.
Since its inception, clients from all over the world have come in for treatments and leave very satisfied. Sapphira is very proud to say that word-of-mouth is the most common way her clients find their way to the Sapphira Spa and Salon. No client is treated better than another—everyone who comes in, whether it’s for just a pedicure or an entire spa experience—is treated with respect and given the best, most personalized treatment.
Currently, there is just one Sapphira Spa and Salon, located in New York City. Encouraged by her clients, Sapphira plans to open other locations in Greenwich, CT and Miami, FL within the next two years.
Sapphira Odessa is well aware of the importance of having a friendly, knowledgeable staff at the Sapphira Spa and Salon. Sapphira worked as an executive account manager for over ten years in New York and Atlanta. In that time, she learned the importance of people skills and strong communication. Before opening her spa, she also learned what clients wanted and didn’t want, from a whole spa experience.
Sapphira and her staff have an utmost commitment to their client and will work with you to best accommodate you when you visit the spa.
Every staff member at Sapphira Spa and Salon is an expert in their respected field of beauty. Most of them have been personally recruited by Sapphira to work at the spa. It’s important for Sapphira that her staffers feel like family and treat each and every client like family. Clients who have to work with a different staffer due to schedule commitments, have complete trust in Sapphira that any staffer they work with will meet their needs.
Sapphira prides herself on hiring the best of the best when it comes to her employees. The best compliment she ever received was from a female client who told Sapphira that she frequented spas all over the world, but only the staff at Sapphira makes her “feel right at home.”
Sapphira and her staff also only use to highest-quality spa and beauty products that are not tested on animals and can be used on all sorts of sensitive skin.
When your birthday rolls around, you’ll receive a special gift from our staff as a thank you for stopping into the Sapphira Spa and Salon.
In today's world, beauty and wellness go together–good health is the basis for good beauty.
Beauty comes from feeling and being your best. It’s your inner confidence that translates to the outside world as attractive. It is our belief that beauty comes from within. Here at Sapphira Spa and Salon, it's our goal to enhance every woman’s natural beauty and make her feel her personal best by blending the inner and outer person she is or aspires to be.
We hope you agree and invite you to experience a day of beauty at Sapphira Spa and Salon in New York City.
Ask anyone what beauty is, and every single person will give a different answer. Beauty is what you want it to be. Beauty is how it makes you feel. Beauty makes you smile. Beauty is you.