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Partnership calendar open from February

I make the content brands wish they had time to make.

Lifestyle, food and travel for 310,000 people across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — mostly women aged 24 to 38 in Sri Lanka, the UAE and Australia. Brands come back because the numbers hold up afterwards.

  • 310KCombined following
  • 7.4%Average engagement
  • 85+Brand partnerships
Maya Fernando laughing in a striped jumper and round orange sunglasses.
Maya Fernando Lifestyle creator · Colombo
310K across three platforms 7.4% engagement 4.9 partner rating

The story

Six years, one audience, and a lot of trust to protect.

The following is the easy part. Keeping it willing to listen is the whole job.

A café table with flowers and coffee beside a window looking out over rooftops.
Colombo · Travelling monthly to Dubai and Melbourne

It started as a food account run from a rented kitchen in Colombo 07, posting whatever I had actually cooked that week. Six years on the subjects have widened to travel and home, but the rule has not moved: if I would not buy it myself, I do not post it.

That costs me work. I turn down roughly a third of the briefs that reach me, usually because the product is fine and the claim is not. What it buys in return is an audience that still clicks through at 7.4% in a year when most accounts my size are under three.

Eighty-five partnerships later, more than half of the brands I have worked with have come back for a second campaign — which is the only metric on this page I would actually defend in a meeting.

  • I only take work I useIf I would not buy it with my own money, the answer is no.
  • Everything is labelledPaid partnerships are marked every time, without anyone having to ask.
  • You get the numbersA full reporting pack within seven days of the final post.
  • Usage rights in writingWhat you may run, where, and for how long — agreed before we shoot.
  • 310K Followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
  • 7.4% Average engagement rate
  • 85+ Brand partnerships since 2019
  • 2.1M Average monthly views across all three platforms

How we can work

From one Reel to a year of being your face.

Rates below are starting points for a single market. Exclusivity, paid usage and extra territories are quoted separately and plainly.

Full campaign partnership

Concept, shoot, edit and publish, handled end to end. You approve the script and the final cut; everything between those two points is mine to worry about.

  • Three Reels, one grid set and five story frames
  • Concept and scripting built around your brief
  • Raw and edited files licensed to you for six months
  • A reporting pack seven days after the final post

From LKR 145,000

Content package, no posting

A shoot day that fills your own feed for a month. You publish it from your accounts; it never appears on mine. Popular with brands who want the look without the handover.

From LKR 85,000

Single Reel or TikTok

One concept, one platform, scripted, shot and published.

From LKR 38,000

Product seeding and reviews

An honest first look on stories, within two weeks of delivery.

From LKR 22,000

Event and launch coverage

Live stories through the evening, with a recap posted the next day.

From LKR 55,000

Long-term ambassador

Six or twelve months, priced as one agreement rather than per post.

Something bigger in mind?

Product launches, travel series and category exclusivity are all possible. Tell me the goal rather than the deliverable and I will come back with a shape.

Ask me on WhatsApp

Recent work

Eight frames, and three campaigns in full.

Stills from the last year of partnerships, then the three I would put in a pitch.

A woman in blue holding a coffee cup at a café window.
Grainhouse · Café series
A flat lay of a notebook, red roses and a bowl of cherries.
Elara Beauty · Gifting
A woman standing beside a bicycle on a city street in the evening.
PALMLINE · City guide
A bright living room filled with plants and morning light.
Lumea · Home edit
A woman seated outdoors surrounded by greenery.
Suriya Tea · Garden shoot
A flat lay of earrings and a clutch bag on a white surface.
kove · Accessories
A woman in a straw hat photographed from behind on a city street.
PALMLINE · Travel diary
A cappuccino with latte art beside a pastry on a café table.
Grainhouse · Menu launch

Case studies

  1. 01
    A flat lay of a notebook, red roses and a bowl of cherries.

    Elara Beauty — A launch that sold out in a weekend

    Three Reels over five days, each one answering a question the comments on the last one had asked.

    • Reels
    • Stories
    • Launch

    +412%site visits in 72 hours

  2. 02
    A woman seated outdoors surrounded by greenery.

    Suriya Tea — Twelve months as their face

    A monthly series shot across four estates, built so the brand owned the footage from the first month.

    • Ambassador
    • Video
    • Licensing

    1.9Mviews across the year

  3. 03
    A woman in blue holding a coffee cup at a café window.

    Grainhouse — A café opening, covered live

    One evening of stories and a recap the next morning, aimed squarely at people who live within a ten-minute walk.

    • Event
    • Stories
    • Local

    +2.4Knew followers for the brand

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References

What brands say afterwards.

Four marketing leads who have run campaigns with me — all happy to be asked.

We budgeted for a slow build and sold out in a weekend. What made the difference was that she read the comments on the first Reel and rewrote the second one around them, without being asked.
Hasini Jayakody
Hasini JayakodyMarketing Lead, Elara Beauty
Maya turned down our first brief because she did not believe one of the claims on the packaging. She was right, we changed it, and the campaign we eventually ran together is still our best performing.
Tharushi Bandara
Tharushi BandaraFounder, kove
A year is a long time to hand your brand to one person. She shot on four estates, delivered every month on schedule, and the licensing was settled before a single frame existed.
Rizwan Careem
Rizwan CareemBrand Manager, Suriya Tea
We are one café with a forty-seat room. She aimed the whole evening at people who live ten minutes away, which is exactly what we needed and not at all what we asked for.
Dinuka Rathnayake
Dinuka RathnayakeOwner, Grainhouse

Contact

Send me the brief.

Product, timing and what success looks like to you. I will come back with a shape and a price, or an honest no.

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  • Colombo, Sri LankaMaya Fernando Media