From the beginning...

Mahalyn was founded by cousins Darlyn San Jose and Leila San Jose. Filipina American Women born and raised in the bay area. 

It was the start of the Pandemic and Darlyn had lost her Dad and turned to crystals for their healing properties. Darlyn had a friend who sold crystal jewelry and etc. She introduced this to Leila who absolutely fell in love with crystals.  This was during the time when plants and crystals were a huge trend. Dar and Lei loved the jewelry but because of the masks that were required to wear, the dangling earrings were just so hard to wear. So, they requested stud earrings from Dar's friend. It took a long time and after thinking about it, they both decided that it would be so easy to make crystal stud earrings-they would be so easy to wear with the masks.

The focus of the company was simple-dedicating jewlry pieces to family members and donating a portion to a chosen foundation. Our first releases were both dedication to our Dads-Opal for Darlyn's Dad and Clear Quartz for Leila's Dad. We also chose crystals that some how portray the characteristics of the person we were dedicating it to.

We also wanted to work with people who wanted to dedicated earrings/necklaces to their loved ones who passed and help their organization. When we finally were out of the pandemic we were able to attend events that occured in the eastbay/hercules areas.