Ear Pointing is more common than you might think. After a simple ear piercing it’s possibly the most common ear modification that you’ll see. Certainly it’s much more common than procedures like ear shaping, ear cropping and earlobe removal, although an earlobe removal may sometimes be done in conjunction with pointing to make the ear appear as thought it’s more pointed than it really is.

The first ear pointings were done in the mid-nineties but it’s really taken off in the last three years or so thanks to practitioners like Steve Haworth, Lukas Zpira, Jonathan Martinez, Matias Tafel, Brian Decker and Emilio Gonzalez.