Working faces: Pamela Warden, Saskatoon, SK.

by Collingridge, Shirley

SaskBusiness • March, 2008 •

At just 10, Saskatoon's Pamela Warden became interested in her future career by "watching a gal put on her makeup in a billiard hall."

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She developed the mantra, "Be positive. Live your dream," then set out to live hers.

At 15, the First Nations woman became the youngest Aloette distributor in Canada, a short-lived career that proved life-changing. When a makeup artist did not show up at Matrix Essentials, "someone knew I had a makeup kit and asked if I would do it," said Warden. She spent nine years with Matrix.

She won Best Makeup at the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association Showcase 2005, and in 2007, worked with Gordon Tootoosis, Mathew Strongeagle and Errol Kinistino on "Out in the Cold." On the series "Rabbit Falls" starring Andrea Menard, Warden exercised her Special FX skills. "It may sound morbid," she said, "but I have been enjoying making dead bodies!"

"When you are doing a bride, you are adjusting yourself to your clients' needs," she explained. "When you are doing something for film, you are creating a character."

Warden also works with sexually exploited youth at Egadz Youth Centre where she sees girls turning their lives around.

For those seeking more basic changes, Warden advises, "If you change your outfit, your hair, remember to change your makeup."

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