
What I Put On My Face is Mamamia’s celebrity beauty series that takes you inside the beauty cabinets of influential women. From what skincare products they use to their go-to makeup tips, it’s a pervy look at exactly what they put on their face. And body. And hair. You get the idea. This week, we spoke to reality TV queen Angie Kent.
If you’re a reality TV fan, Angie Kent needs no introduction… but here’s one anyway.
After getting her start in front of the camera onGogglebox ,Angie entered the jungle forI’m a Celebrity, found a boyfriend onThe Bachelorette and most recently, danced her heart out onDancing with the Stars. When I spoke to Angie, she was funny and real and completely no bullsh*t. From talking about how she’s been dealing with skin issues like acne, acne scarring and pigmentation for 20 years, to why she now can’t leave the house without makeup, here’s a look inside Angie’s beauty routine.
WATCH: Angie sat down with Mamamia’s Superfan to chat all things life and love in this hilarious (and puppy-filled) video below, post continues after video.
Angie Kent’s skincare routine.
Skin’s a huge thing for me, it’s one of my biggest insecurities. Everybody’s got their thing, and for me, I’ve always wanted to have beautiful, clear skin. I have suffered on and off with acne since I was 11, I started getting pimples when I was 10. I even got adult acne again at 25. And then being in the Queensland sun and picking at my pimples, I ended up getting really bad scarring.
Don’t pop your pimples and don’t tan. That’s all I did in Queensland and I’ve suffered for it. When you’re younger, you just don’t care as much and you run around without sunscreen on, whereas now, I’m putting a hat on and lathering myself in sunscreen because I’m 30 now and I can’t sit out in the sun like I used to.
I’m very particular with my skin, I don’t just use anything. Otherwise my skin will go wild. BeforeThe Bachelorettestarted, I was in the jungle [onI’m a Celeb] with no makeup and products, and my skin went crazy. It was good to give my skin a break, but in terms of putting on the thick eco sunscreen, my face didn’t like it and I started to break out. It’s sensitive. Everything work-wise since then has been very makeup-based. You’re always getting your hair and makeup done by different makeup artists, so that’s different products, different hands, different brushes, so it was really important for me to have skincare products to keep my skin under control.
I’ve had all the skin treatments – I’m one of those people who has no pain threshold, I’m like ‘do whatever works!’. I do Clear and Brilliant, Fraxel, chemical peels and other treatments to lighten my acne scars because they’re still pretty hardcore on my cheeks. I actually have three favourite skin clinics that I go to. One when I’m at home on the Sunshine Coast, Aglo Finishing Salon, they’re the best when it comes to facials and I use their products. I have another beautiful lady who takes care of other bits and pieces, Anita East Medispa. And the one I got to in Sydney is Medispa by Matty and she helps with my acne scars, and little [filler and Botox] top-ups here and there.
I use products from the Aglo clinic, I really trust them and they know my skin, they know what I’ve suffered from. I use serums for my pigmentation and scarring, and they keep my skin nice and fresh because it can get really dry. It can also get really oily… it just does what it wants. Depending on the weather and its mood. My biggest advice I would say is, never go to anyone who doesn’t look at your face and already recognise and enhance what you have, who doesn’t want to change what you look like. That’s big for me.
Angie’s makeup routine.
TV makeup is a lot. I went from doing my own makeup on theGoggleboxcouch, which was always quite stock standard – I didn’t spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on makeup mainly because I didn’t have any money – toThe BacheloretteandDancing With The Stars. OnDWTS, we start getting our makeup done at 11am and we don’t actually dance until 7pm… I don’t know what they use but it stayed on. Having your makeup done is such a treat. I’ve always been such a simpleton when it came to makeup, but now I’ve got a taste for it, I’m hooked. Makeup is fun.
The more makeup I have on, the more I look older. But now, even on my days off, I like to keep my makeup simple. I can’t just walk around with no makeup on anymore. It’s always the way when I’m all done up after doing something, no one will come over and want a photo or chat. But as soon as I go to the shopping centre with no makeup on, no bra, in activewear with no shoes, someone’s like ‘Angie!’. But I love that people recognise me as that though, that means they know the real Angie. But then I’ll look at the photo and think, well that’s you but you could’ve at least put on a little bloody makeup. As long as my eyebrows are on and I’ve got some BB cream, I’m sorted.
My general look is quite basic, I love a bit of shimmer and glow. Most of the time it’s sweat. I think I’m the sweatiest person in Australia. With foundation, I feel like because I have scarring and pigmentation, if I wear too much, it seeps into my scars so I’m more of a BB cream and mineral powde
Amy Clark
Lifestyle Editor
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