Our Piercing Studio
Tribal Expression is a precision body modification studio located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada since 2003.
We pride ourselves in our highly trained, amazing staff, our advanced sterilization techniques, and aseptic piercing procedures. We provide a variety of services including body piercing, children’s lobe piercing, custom jewelry ordering and crafting, scarification and branding.
Our line of exclusive body jewelry is handmade in-house by our jewelry manufacturing team and goldsmith.
Why get pierced at Tribal?
Tribal Expression Proudly Has 4.9 stars on google with thousands of reviews from happy clients. Take sometime to review these and you will see that we are a kind, caring environment that wants that best for our clients and that we will do our best ensure your success and happiness with your new piercing.
Tribal Expression has had the pleasure of offering body piercings, dermal anchors, scarification, branding, and custom body jewelry manufacturing to the Calgary market for over 20yrs.
We are even one of the few shops in the world where you can watch your individual sterilization process be done right before your eyes.
Tribal proudly offers individual sterilization for each procedure we preform, we utilize a Statim 5000 sterilizer allowing us to safely and quickly sterilize each person’s , tools, disposable needle, and jewelry.
Tribal Expression is a family-owned corporation and is a firm believer in old-school business practices including taking care of our customers and quality workmanship.
Jewelry Crafting
For 19 + yrs, Tribal Expression has had full-time, custom-trained goldsmiths on site who have been an integral part of our family business, allowing us to create new custom styles, unique nickel-free alloys, affordable prices and most importantly; allows us to support our local artisans.
Tribal currently has 4 full-time goldsmiths working for us, this allows us to keep our prices competitive, have items in stock all the time and to create new fun designs
Our Piercings
Tribal Expression has been Western Canada’s exclusive body piercing studio, specializing in body piercing, our calming, precise, relaxed, “tribal way” approach to piercing. Since we have opened in 1993 we have been able to provide over 225,000 piercing services on beautiful clients. We Take Pride in helping you relax, and enjoying your piercing experience.
Keith Kennedy adapted and formatted his piercing style from training seminars he received twice from Gauntlet in San Francisco in the early 90s. Keith was lucky enough to see, hang out, and take training at their main office. Keith was able to explore and experience their shop in Castro in San Francisco first hand and these experiences have helped shaped what Tribal Expression is today.
Tribal Expression has a thorough apprenticeship program for our piercers to ensure the “Tribal way” is passed on, this apprentice program can take years to fully complete.
Did you know that Tribal Expression is opening a second exquisite jewelry and piercing studio in Inglewood? Our new brand “Opulence” Artisan Body Jewelry & Piercing will be focusing on handmade, local body jewelry and earrings in solid 14kt, 18kt and platinum. All of our jewelry will focus on genuine gemstones only and will be a collection-based store. With limited numbers of stones used in each collection, most stones are handpicked and specially coordinated together at one time.
This brand will make you feel exactly how you were born to feel.
Allow our Jewelry consultants and piercing curator to treat you to a drink while they show you some of the current collections we have been working on.
We have been planning this and keeping it a secret now for 2yrs….. in the height of Covid we had to make some scary but needed moves to secure a lease and start making jewelry!
We found a great spot on the corner of 9th Ave and 10th St SE, (across from Bite and the Hose and Hound). This amazing, high-profile space will treat our new brand well.
Construction is almost done and we will be opening our doors at the beginning of 2023.
Opulence will also have a wonderful collection of heirloom jewelry. This collection is designed as an investment to pass down within your family. Do you have a granddaughter or great-granddaughter that you would like to start a collection with to pass down? The best part is you get to wear it as well! Heirloom and passed-down jewelry is very special and is fondly remembered as something that a person wore, not just something found in a jewelry box. If this interests, you be sure to stop in and see our Heirloom collection or ask us how we can create something special for your family.
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Our Wonderful Clients
