About us

Make-up Artist Provsions was started by make-up artists for make-up artists. we wanted to establish a friendly shop where whatever your budget you were always a welcome and valued face. We also wanted a shop that would be reliable at sending out orders phoned in from the middle of nowhere when stuck on location and in dire need of something urgently. Thirdly we wanted Make up artist provisions to become a meeting place where make up artists could come for a chat or an exchange of ideas.

After 11 years we hope we are fulfilling our first two aims, and now perhaps with the launch of our new website /catalogue on line we hope to be able to facilitate an internet site where ideas, tips and new products can be exchanged on line. We have tips and links from well established and well known make up artists. We make very few of our own products ( although one day?..) which leaves us the owners, as working make up artists, in the unique position of stocking only products that we think work well. Make up Artist Provisions celebrated its ten year anniversary in 2006, and between the owners, Jan Kate and Natalie we have over sixty years experience in film/TV make up/hair! Trends change in make up very quickly and as we are all working full time we are able to incorporate the trends easily into the stock on the shelves.

Many thanks for your time and we always appreciate feedback.

Finally an apology for some products that you may have seen in our shop but are not on our website that is because, believe it or not, some companies refuse to let us sell their products over the web! finally due to possible legal action from a large company that felt our logo and name was possibly confusingly similar to theirs, we have taken the somewhat unusual step of changing our name, by a flip of the logo to PAM - Provisions for Artists of Make up! PAM is here to help you.

Kate, Jan and Natalie.

Natalie Pateman

Natalie Pateman is a Director of Makeup Artist Provisions Limited.Her first taste of the makeup industry was helping Kate Benton as a junior shop assistant at Goldhawk Mews.
Her initial studies encompassed hairdressing,wig making and beauty therapy but she furthered her education at Greasepaint College in Ealing studying make-up and prosthetics.

Her first opportunity came as a trainee on an Antonio Bird film called FACE starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone.

This followed swiftly by various dramas such as Nature Boy,Likeness in Stone,Grangehill,Alibi, The Line of Beauty,Waking The Dead and Holby City.
She is currently working on the third series of Hotel Babylon starring Max Beesley and a multitude of celebrity guests.

Jan Sewell

Jan Sewell is a BBC trained chief makeup, hair & prosthetics artist for Film & TV. A Bafta winner for French and Saunders and Emmy nominee for Not a Penny More ... Not a Penny Less, she designed and executed the makeup for Absolutely Fabulous as well as working on Black Adder Goes Back & Forth & The Wind & The Willows directed by ex-Python, Terry Jones.

Kate Benton

Kate Benton - started her career at the BBC and trained / worked there for 11 years, leaving in 1992 , to establish MAP where she worked full time for three years.

Since then she has gone on to work full time as a make up artist, either as a designer on Televsion or as an assistant on features.

She has twice been nominated for a BAFTA, and once for an EMMY. Her long list of credits include Dead Ringers, Mitchell and Webb, Absolutely Fabulous, Lenny Henry ( as designer) and Love Actually, Bridget Jones and Children of Men ( as assistant).