Rene Gonzales
Motivational Speaker, Producer
Rene began her career over 20 years ago, working with Dior and Chanel as a celebrity makeup artist and trainer. She has also worked with MAC as a trainer, and Clarin’s of Paris. Rene started the international make up artistry team for the US West Coast out of Paris. She has been a guest artist for Origins, Benefit, and Prescriptives, and an executive for Studio Gear. Her work and her pro tips have been featured as pro makeup expert on KUSI, CW, NBC, FOX, KTLA, CBS, and CW and many more around the world.
Rene has also written articles for various magazines and been a guest on many radio talk shows. And is now a beauty content writer for many international magazines. As well as taking part and being key makeup artist in fashion weeks around the world and executive producing magazine editorials. In addition, she specializes in hair styling, and has been a color specialist for Redken, designing color techniques still used today. Some of Rene’s celebrity clients include Super Model and actress Eugenia Kuzmina, Marion Ross, Danica McKellar, Victoria Secret models , Demi Lovato, Elaine Swann, ELLE France, Ross Mathew’s, Jay Leno, LT from the Chargers,and many others in the entertainment and fashion industries. Renee has also had a very successful international slippery makeup artistry team, “C& E Makeup Team,” that has worked on fashion weeks around the world, TV shows concert tours, editorial features for magazines, photo shoots, and music videos.
She has also ran her own very successful Women’s entrepreneurs networking group in San Diego, called, “AWB; appreciation of women in business .” It was supported by the Better Business Bureau, all the local magazines and non-local magazines, as well as local radio shows, all the local news stations. Where she brought together networking events, and highlighted, local charities, raising funds for them along the way.
She’s known in the community for her philanthropy in support of small businesses.