PROFESSIONAL REAL LIFE MERMAID

Trail blazing the professional career of mermaiding, in 2004 Mahina became one of the first professional mermaids in the world. She is highly sought after for film, TV, advertising commercials, music videos, and commercial and environmental photographic campaigns. Her experience as a professional dancer, surfer, freediver, surf life-saver, and model means she is well suited to this unique career path.

In order to fully embody the magical quality of the iconic mermaid she learnt to free dive in Thailand, and can hold her breath in controlled conditions for up to five minutes. Mahina’s dedication to the physical demands of the job means she is able to work for long hours under water in difficult conditions. She carefully designs and handcrafts all of her mermaid tails to ensure the look is unique and highly professional. Her ability to go the extra mile to get quality underwater shots, along with her extensive modelling and design expertise gives her jobs a unique and magical quality.

Mahina has a wealth of experience with TV commercials, music video clips and photographic campaigns. Some examples are: she has featured in Redfoo's 'Let's Get Ridiculous' official video clip, as well as appeared in corporate branding jobs with companies such as Optus for their TVC's and national print and billboard campaigns.

Photographic portraits of Mahina - shot as part of a Surfland Series by the prestigious world recognized photographer Joni Sternbach from New York, have become well known and loved and have featured in some the most prestigious photography galleries & museums all over the world.

Mahina Mermaid has caught the attention of international media. She has appeared in editorial features in The London Times, Elle magazine in Belgium & Quebec, Vogue UK, Tatler, Glamour Italy, Dolly, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Total Girl, Little Angels, News.com.au, Today Network, and Women’s Health & Fitness. Mahina Mermaid's photograph has even been sketched and featured on page one of the Wall Street Journal, recognizing Mahina as a Mermaiding Superstar.

Mahina Mermaid has on several occasions featured in Total Girl Magazine as a guest writer in a column called Eco Zone. It is here that she has also had the wonderful opportunity to share her eco friendly and ocean conservation messages with young tween girls.

Mahina has featured modeling in a well established and high-end Japanese label called KAPITAL. In this campaign, Mahina wore their range of clothing in her mermaid tail – well mostly jackets and tops! Even whilst riding a horse in the shoreline.

Mahina Mermaid is available for commercial jobs for film, TV, advertising campaigns, music videos, print media, photographic projects and environmental campaigns. Mahina exudes and brings with her; the grace, beauty and authenticity of a real life mermaid to any project or campaign. Her professionalism and execution of any brief is second to none and the results of her delivery have always exceeded client expectations.

Commercial Jobs:

If you are interested in finding out more about ‘Mahina Mermaid’ for commercial jobs – Please contact Mahina’s Management - Melissa Barrett

Email : info@mahinamermaid.com

Phone : +61 28405 7990

Ocean conservation collaborations and campaigns:

Mahina also has a deep commitment to ocean conservation, she is involved with a number of conservation groups and has swum with wild sea life to promote environmental awareness campaigns. If you wish to talk to her regarding collaborations on any ocean conservation issue please contact Mahina Mermaid at info@mahinamermaid.com