Meet Materia Brooks of Delylah Rose in Jacksonville

Today we’d like to introduce you to Materia Brooks.

Materia, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I always knew one day I would be great at something in life but I never knew what it would be. Becoming Delylah Rose was a journey for me but it took faith in God & belief in myself. I was bullied as a young girl for my skin tone, I was always told I was so ugly because I was so dark & I would always say one day I’m gone grow up to be in the spot light for everyone to see. Being dark skinned made me very insecure about myself so I found a liking to makeup, my cousin who is like my aunt used to wear it so much as I was growing up it was always red lipstick & red blush, so I would sneak in her bathroom while she was at work an Glam myself up. & for my 8th grade prom my sister put lashes an eyeliner on me & it was a wrap for me lol I wanted it every day. So one day I got on YouTube and YouTube became my life I watched makeup videos all day everyday an I wouldn’t leave my house without having it on ever! Makeup made me feel beautiful, I was more confident & self-accepting it taught me how to partially love myself. The more I did it the more I learned how to perfect it, I was dedicated. I would do my makeup everyday an go to the orange park mall & ask people if I became a makeup artist would you let me do your makeup , or ask random people what do you think about my makeup & go home an practice some more, I would practice on my niece who was about 5 or 6 at the time & or my older sister all the time. My sister bought makeup for me with half her income tax money one time an I never used it on a single person only myself & I had the best brands she was mad at me but I just wasn’t ready because I felt I wasn’t good enough yet.

So, one day I was working at this bank job “citi bank” to be exact my last job in life & I would go to work every day done up, makeup on fleek lol. I would tell people I’m a makeup artist you should book me without really knowing how to do others but I was confident i had to be to work at 5am I woke up at 3:30am every morning and did my makeup faithfully & I would post pictures every day on Facebook, well one day the job fired me for not having a high school diploma & I was devastated I couldn’t find another job to save my life. & my close friend Jahthiyah told me it’s time Delylah but I was sooo scared I’m like “ it’s not time I don’t have it, I’m not as good as I want to be, I got to wait” she said “if you don’t do this I’m not gone ever talk to you again in life” an she was serious, (well I felt she was at the time) . So, at one point I used to go viral on Facebook in makeup groups an on my page because I was consistently posting. I then did my lil cousin makeup on August 4, 2016 for a G Herbo concert she was my first real client & I begin posting on my Facebook I’m taking clients an that’s where it all started in my sisters living room with a table and a kitchen chair I didn’t even have the supplies for every skin tone I used all my own makeup I used on myself which had ran out after so long because I did my makeup everyday so I stole the rest from Walgreens, CVS or Walmart.

I started out doing makeup for $35-$40 dollars. Times were hard for my sister & I & she had a daughter as well. We didn’t really have much, & little to no help we wore flip flops every day, didn’t have nice clothing but we made it all look good, things got bad to the point we had to scrape up change sometimes to feed my niece and ourselves. So, my sister & I said we were going to begin dancing to start our careers I wanted to be a makeup artist & she wanted to do real estate Delylah Rose & Brooks Empire was in the making. & All my life my dad owned strip clubs so dancing in my home town wasn’t going to work we set a date which was May 4th and said we would only do it for a year so we went to Houston Texas, to Orlando FL, then straight to the big stage in Miami fl. I bought all my makeup & stole some of it too still but I had my plan started an in the mist of all of it I was still doing makeup from home when I came home I was building my clientele. But no one knew I ever was dancing I hid it from everyone, never took pictures or videos just remained focused the entire time It really took a strong mind to do it I must say because it was very different for me and we did it sober no alcohol or drugs every night my sister & I had a goal we had to achieve we stayed in motel 6 an raggedy hotels just to keep all our money so it could go to what we believed would change our life & eventually it did. Soon I built enough clientele up to begin working in a salon my first salon ever & I enjoyed it but I knew it wasn’t what I wanted for myself I saw myself bigger & better so I didn’t stop dancing I just did both. I made a promise to myself that once this salon “she salon” called me I would stop dancing & never go back, at first she said I couldn’t work there because I didn’t have a license but I just knew God would turn things around for me somehow I kept my faith honestly & just kept doing what I been doing. But one day I got the call & she interviewed me and I was so happy I cried like a baby everything was beginning to work out, I’ve always been a girl of big dreams & her salon was all white with glass so perfect for me & she was lovely herself an so were the other stylist.

The night I got the phone call I was in Miami getting ready to go dance an my sister & I said this is it & didn’t even go to work & Also never went back dancing. I begin working in the salon on my birthday April 15th. What started out as a struggling a scary journey ended as a beautiful testimony an a new start. I then started grinding it out at the shop I was there most days from 6am in the morning till about 12am at night to do my dancer clients, I turned not one person down I was determined to be the best an outdo myself because this is what I wanted. I then begin doing the owner of the shop every other day an she pushed me as well because she saw I believed in myself so she didn’t let me fall short and till this day I still appreciate that because we all need someone in our corner to push us when we can’t always push ourselves. But as time went on my Vision got bigger an I wanted to do celebrities, I was told by some I wasn’t going to be able to do it and by some go for it but I knew I could achieve anything I put my mind to by now I had got that far with only God, hope and a Dream I was unstoppable. & eventually I did every celebrity that came to Jax or Florida I begin doing But one day everything came to a stop & I was told I had to leave the salon & yes at first I was hurt but I understood there were guidelines an rules I had to follow which I had outgrown an it was just time for me to fly & go after the things God had promised me. It broke up the relationship between me & the owner but nevertheless working there taught me a lot and I loved every minute of it and the people I came encounter with including the owner, I will always have a certain level of respect for her it’s just how my heart is. But soon after My clientele begin to decrease because I didn’t have a place to work anymore & I didn’t want to work just anywhere coming from the type of salon I worked at, so I lost a lot of customers, & I actually went broke, I cried many many nights but I never stopped. I soon realized God makes you uncomfortable to help you grow, you never change unless you’re in a situation where you have no choice but to change & all in all this is what I wanted bigger and better.

But when was it coming ? was the question I asked myself? Later I begin working in a new salon call CEO virgin hair & they were a blessing I had no booth rent an I became a brand ambassador to sale their hair. I worked there for about a year and now I have a suite with a close friend of mine who is now my business partner an like a sister to me her name is Diamond Coleman & as I begin to do more celebs I sent them to her for hair & we now do all the celebs together who comes to Jax & travel I’m grateful for a friend in business an genuine in friendship We push each other to become better. & I’m also going through an amazing new change which is becoming a mother it was very scary at first because I didn’t know how I was going to fit a child into my busy career but God has always been in control of my plans not me so I’m just following his way and not my own anymore I’m thankful to say I know I’m closer to my finish line than I think being pregnant allowed me to feel more and not just think an talk, I now feel my shift an what God is preparing for me in my spirit rather than just seeing it as I vision it, I have some great things in the works DELYLAHROSE.COM is here & my lash line is about to drop soon The Rose Collection on July 9th 2020 I also have some other great things I’m working on right now as well. So here’s a message to anyone feeling like they want to go after a dream without believers. Never stop believing in yourself no matter what life throws at you it’s only to build you but you have to see the good in the bad & just take that leap of faith, in the beginning no ones sees your vision how you see it so go for it!!!

Has it been a smooth road?
No road is smooth when working on being better. I have been broke more times than I can say, I have sacrificed the things I wanted for the things I needed to get me where I’m at, I have had to make decisions that were painful for my right now but better for my future an that’s a hard thing to do. But you can’t live in your now because if it’s not going to make a difference in your life later on then it’s no need to keep holding on to it. I’ve lost friends, & lovers. & I am having a baby in the middle of my career which what I thought was going to be my best year turned out to be my most uncomfortable, difficult a different year of them all. But with God you can achieve anything.

Delylah Rose – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
I am a black self-taught Celebrity makeup artist, I have been doing makeup for three years now four years on August 4th, I specialize in beauty, & changing your face structure with makeup. I am known for my dedication to my craft & doing celebrities makeup in my city. I am most proud of my determination to not giving up even when I felt I wanted to & my clients never giving up on me no matter how things got me. My business is still standing an growing with better people, I am different from other makeup artist in my city because I set a different goal an path I want to tv & film & those are the type of clients I get, & I travel outside of my city as well to do big events all over the world.

How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
I see my industry being a billion dollar industry which it already is right now. Beauty right now is one of the highest demand things in. Every woman wants to feel beautiful a want that top notch Glam!

Pricing:

• My Rose Beat is $75 which is a natural Glam without eyeshadow with a bold or neutral lip.
• My Rose Neutral Beat is $85 which a eyeshadow look of neutral, soft tone colors like brown, nude, an bronze
• My Delylahs Beat is $95 Which is my signature Glam it’s a high fashion Glam one that goes with a specific look, theme or outfit it contains a cut crease of a halo eye with various of colors to choose from a

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.delylahrose.com
• Phone: 9049033286
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: Delylah

Image Credit:
Blue Franswa

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