About Me

Gretchen Davis resides in San Francisco working as a freelance Makeup Artist, and writer for the entertainment industry. She is highly sought after to work with high profile clients in film, television, and digital media as a personal or department head. In 2012 Gretchen was nominated for an Emmy highlighting her work on Hemingway and Gellhorn. Some of her clients include Sony, Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Universal, Electronic Arts, Pixar and ILM. She has department headed films such as HBO Hemingway and Gellhorn, Chasing Mavericks, and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.. Also Gretchen keyed projects like feature film Milk and NBC’s Trauma. Gretchen Co Authored “The Makeup Artist Handbook” distributed World Wide by Focal Press and published by Elsevier in March 2008. The book is critical acclaimed as a must have for the working makeup artist. Gretchen continued as Co Author for The Makeup Artist Handbook Second Edition out in the spring 2012. She is a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 706, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists, Hollywood, and is licensed esthetics in the state of California.