“I like to be imperfect. Imperfections make you unique,” says Toxii, the world’s first woman to undergo a full nose removal.

In a transformation that is as jaw-dropping as it is controversial, 31-year-old Toxii from Belgium has stunned the internet with an extreme body modification journey that’s left her virtually unrecognisable — and made her the first woman in recorded history to undergo a full nose removal.

Just four years ago, Toxii — then a glamorous blonde with soft makeup and a tan — looked every bit the Instagram influencer. But today, her appearance evokes shock and awe in equal measure.

Gone are the gold hoop earrings and pink lipstick. In their place: pitch-black eyes, ridged skin, a forked black tongue, silver-pointed teeth and a face covered in black tattoos. Waist-length black dreadlocks now replace her once-blonde hair. Horns protrude from her forehead. And in perhaps the most extreme change of all — her nose has been surgically removed.

“I like to be imperfect and I think that imperfections make you unique,” Toxii said in a recent interview with street artist Devon Rodriguez. She admitted that the nose amputation was “far more painful” than her horn implant surgery. “It took around eight weeks to heal,” she added.

Each of her procedures — including genital modifications, breast implants, scarification, tongue splitting and neck ridges — was carefully documented and, in some cases, required approval from both a doctor and psychiatrist.

And while the physical pain was intense, Toxii says the emotional journey has brought her peace.

“I feel more like myself now than I ever did before,” she stated confidently.

Still, her radical transformation has triggered intense reactions across social media.

“You were so beautiful before. What on earth made you do this to yourself?” wrote one Instagram user beneath her photo reveal. Another added, “Looking at the before and after photos makes me cry.”

Despite the criticism, Toxii remains unfazed. She’s even kept the parts of her body that were removed — including her nose — preserved in small jars, which she calls keepsakes of her evolution.

Not everyone agrees with her decisions, but Toxii is unapologetically herself — and says that her journey is far from over.

As one follower summed it up: “You don’t have to understand her to know she’s rewriting the definition of identity — one scar at a time.”