Kim Kardashian has left some fans groaning with dismay over what appeared to be a heavily-filtered video of her 13-year-old daughter North West. North, whose father is Kardashian's third ex-husband Kanye West, posted a clip this week to the TikTok account she shares with her mother. Wearing a long blue wig, trendy goth makeup and a black leather outfit, the budding musician - who is fond of experimenting with cosmetics on herself, family and friends - joyfully danced around to the classic 2006 Rihanna single SOS. However some viewers found their attention drawn to North's nose, sharing their scandalized reactions in the comments section. 'Her contouring her beautiful nose is making me really upset. What is happening here??' wrote one observer in a comment viewed by The US Sun. 'Poor kid that she got influenced by her relatives to believe her face is not pretty enough as it is /: Bad parenting,' sniffed another. The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Kardashian for comment. North was firmly defended by her fans, one of whom wrote with a set of praying hands emoji: 'be nice guys she has the comments on.'

'I also had a Hot topic phase,' one giggled as another wrote: 'Man i wish i had that budget at 13 when i had an alt phase, yall dont get it.' Still another mounted a spirited argument in favor of the look, writing: 'y’all obviously didn’t have an alt phase when u were 13 and it shows. imagine having an alt phase as a 13 year old with UNLIMITED BUDGET AND CONNECTIONS. of course she wants to express herself let her be. nothing about this is inappropriate.'

North, who has embarked on her own music career, ignited a social media firestorm when she revealed in August 2025 that she had obtained a dermal piercing consisting of two small metal balls under a knuckle of her right hand middle finger. Dermal piercings are distinct from other piercings in that a tiny anchor hooked under the skin is used to keep the jewelry in place. As a result, they come with risks like keloid scarring, infection and - if improperly looked after - even rejection by the wearer's body.

North's mother, who has spoken often about being her primary guardian, was thus raked over the coals for allowing her to get a dermal piercing so young. However North responded by posting a TikTok in December in which she mimed to the sound-byte: 'Why are you crying? How old are you? Just pull it together,' with a caption that read: 'this is for everyone that's mad over a finger piercing.' Undeterred by the brickbats her mother was receiving, North then apparently unveiled two further dermal finger piercings on her Insta Stories in January.

Then this May, in the music video for her first solo single #N0rth4evr, she was shown strolling through a graveyard with two stick-on piercings under one of her eyes and another one placed near the top of her nose. Much of the video was grainy and choppy, in a nod to 'found footage' horror movies like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Her follow-up single was a collaboration with a fellow 'nepo baby' - Lil Novi, the 16-year-old son of rap legend Lil Wayne and R&B songstress Nivea.

Lil Wayne and Kanye worked on a number of songs together in the 2000s, including the 2007 release Barry Bonds and the 2008 single See You in My Nightmares. Their children's new effort, entitled MULA THA ROOT OF ALL EVIL, is a cacophonous piece of music with a frenetically edited music video to match. North materializes in the middle of the video with blue hair, seemingly wearing a set of grillz as well as a pair of spiky gauntlets. North is one of the four children Kardashian and West welcomed into the world together - the others being Saint, 10, Chicago, eight, and Psalm, seven.