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Lucie answers fan questions that she's never answered before like when she knew she had fallen in love and what it's like to get sponsored on Instagram.
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00:00Hey guys, my name is Lucy and I'm a video producer at Refinery29 and I'm also on
00:05camera in a lot of our content and my job has led to me having a bit of a
00:09social media following on Instagram and so pretty much every single day I open
00:14my Instagram account and I have private messages from people asking me all
00:18sorts of questions. I was going through these questions recently and I realized
00:21there are so many questions that I just haven't answered yet. So it's no wonder
00:26you guys have a lot of questions. So I made a post on Instagram where I asked
00:30people to comment the questions that I've never answered below and I got
00:34hundreds and hundreds of them and I'm just gonna go through a few of the
00:38questions that I got and I'll give you my honest answers. So here is the first
00:42question. Flower Power Emily asks, when did you realize you were in love with Michael?
00:47To be honest, I think it was the very beginning. We started dating in 2009 and
00:53pretty early on in our relationship we made a little video together that I have
00:57on a DVD at home in my drawer and I remember putting that video away and
01:02saying I need to keep this in a safe place because I want to play this at the
01:06wedding and that was almost ten years ago. The Nebby wants to know what was your
01:11very first concert to go see? My first concert was in the year 2000. I was eight
01:16years old and my dad got my whole family tickets for Jingle Ball 2000. I don't
01:22remember much from the occasion but I do remember that it was New Year's Eve and
01:26we walked right in to the Baja men singing, who love their dogs out? That was fun.
01:32Abe Schwab asks, what is your favorite Try Living with Lucy episode? That's a tough
01:36one because they're all like children to me but if I had to pick I think my
01:40favorite episode at least to shoot was Five Days of Facing My Fears. More than any
01:45other episode that one took me far outside of my comfort zone but I had so much
01:49fun doing everything I did. So even though I was screaming when I crunched on the
01:53crickets, secretly I was having the best time in my life. Allison Kitten wants to
02:02know what is the best way to learn how to edit videos and what software should a
02:06beginner use? Videos. Disclaimer this is coming from someone who's never taken a
02:11class on how to edit videos. I've only ever learned by sitting and watching other
02:15people edit and then watching what their fingers are doing and copying it for
02:19myself. But I truly believe that the best way to learn how to edit is by just
02:23editing content. Shoot something on your iPhone, drag it into iMovie, and play
02:27around with it and edit it. At Refinery29 we use Adobe Premiere which is a
02:32really high quality editing software. It's very similar to Final Cut. The only
02:35thing about Adobe Premiere is that it's not free. You have to buy the entire Adobe
02:39Creative Cloud suite and then you download the Premiere application. For a
02:44beginner I would say iMovie is more than enough. Rachel London O asks, how tall are
02:49you? I am five feet and seven inches tall. LJ2828 asks, what's the scariest thing
02:54that's ever happened to you? Alright guys, story time. When I was about 12 I was on a
03:01family vacation to Aruba and I was playing this game on the beach with my
03:05brother and his friends at night. Never go on the beach at night, that's just
03:08probably not a good idea. We were playing sort of this dodgeball game where we were
03:12hiding behind stacks of pool chairs and running away from each other and trying
03:15to peg each other with the ball and I went off by myself, was hiding behind a
03:19stack of pool chairs and I kind of saw that there was a figure standing off to
03:25the side of me and I didn't look to see who this person was but I just sensed
03:29that they were there and I wasn't particularly scared. I felt very safe.
03:32The next thing you know, and I'm not kidding, this is not a joke, the next thing
03:36you know said person stands up, walks two feet towards me and just drop kicks me in
03:43the head. I just want to show you what I mean by drop kicked. This person just walks
03:51right over to me and just goes right in my head. I just flew across the beach. I just
03:57looked over to see what had just happened and I saw this teenage American boy just
04:02walking away from the scene. I actually didn't learn that much information about
04:06this kid. I think he was just an American that was on vacation in Aruba at the same
04:10time who got a little drunk and went around and kicked a young girl in the
04:14head. I never heard from him again. I never got kicked in the head by him again
04:18and to this day I still don't know who he is, where he is, or what his deal is.
04:23But sir, if you're out there and you're the guy that kicked me in the head, you're mean.
04:28Gold Coast Grace asks, who did you idolize growing up? I'm not sure I idolized her
04:33anymore because I don't know her current whereabouts, but back in the 90s I totally
04:38idolized Amanda Bynes. She killed it. She had the Amanda show, all that. She was
04:43hilarious. She was smart. She had a great head on her shoulders and she was
04:46overall an incredible role model in the 90s. Hannah Carl 721 asks, what is the best
04:52and worst thing about living in New York City? There are so many great things. I
04:56don't think I can pick one, but if I had to, I think I would say that my personal
05:02favorite thing about living here is just constantly being reminded of how
05:06magical it is to live in such an iconic city. The other night I was walking with
05:10Michael to our favorite ice cream shop and on the way back our view uptown is
05:14just a straight view of the Empire State Building and I said to him how amazing is
05:18it that the walk back from our local ice cream shop has us looking at the Empire
05:22State Building, which is this iconic building that's known around the entire
05:26world as a New York City staple landmark and here we are right in front of it. And my
05:31least favorite thing about living here has got to be the subway system. I don't
05:36know what New York is doing with the subway system, but it is so confusing. I
05:41lived in London for a couple months and I took the tube and let me tell you that
05:45tube is clean as all hell and it is so easy to get around. In New York without fail
05:51before you go underground you need to look at a phone or check out the MTA
05:55website and make sure you know what subway to take. And not only is the subway a
06:00little bit confusing, but it's also pretty dirty. I've seen a number of rats
06:05cruising around the tracks. I've gone down there and I've smelled and seen
06:09urine, but I've got to say the subways are the best way to get around. I take them
06:13every single day and part of me kind of likes the rats.
06:16Aaliyah Beal 4 asks, do you want kids? And if so, how many? Yes, I do. I want children and
06:23I think because I come from a family of three, I would love to have three, but Michael comes from
06:28a family of two and he'd love to have two.
06:30So maybe we'll have two and a half. Music Improv asks, what is something
06:35that people commonly misunderstand about what you do? I get the feeling that a lot
06:40of people think about my job and envision what I do and they probably think that
06:45everything is so much fun. I'm going to this restaurant and I'm trying the food.
06:48I'm dancing with the Rockettes. I'm making donuts. I'm here. I'm there. I'm in Costa Rica.
06:53I'm sure it looks like a party all the time. And don't get me wrong, getting the
06:58opportunity to do all this stuff and try new things every day for work is a party.
07:03It's so fun. But I feel like a lot of people think that I show up on a set and
07:08there's a whole crew there waiting for me and we're all ready to go and I just hop
07:12in the video, do my fun thing, and then head on home. And that is not how it works.
07:17I should probably make an entire video about the process of making videos because there's
07:21a lot to unpack here. But especially working in digital versus traditional media, if you're
07:26a producer, you're doing everything. First you gotta come up with the idea, which honestly
07:30I have to thank you guys majorly because I take most of my ideas from the comments section.
07:35Then once you have the idea you have to reach out to all the people involved, you have to
07:39consider the legal implications of where you're going to shoot, you gotta make sure to get
07:43all the proper forms signed, plan the video, and that's called pre-production. Then you
07:47go on set and usually it's just me and one camera person. It's very run and gun. Two
07:52people, we go in, we shoot what we need, and then when it's done and the footage gets dropped
07:56off with our post-production department, it goes through an editing process. I have to
08:00be available via email to watch cuts and give notes to the editors until the video comes
08:05out looking the way that I envisioned it. So there's a lot more than just showing up
08:09on set and having fun and trying new things. It really is about seeing the video through
08:14from start to finish until it's fully uploaded and it's on YouTube.
08:18Rachanna G04 asks, when did you start shaving? I was in 8th grade when I started shaving and
08:24I remember it very clearly because I was at summer camp and I had wanted to shave for years
08:29and years before, but my mother would not let me. And I remember being at summer camp with
08:34all my friends shaving, everyone was allowed to, and I was so jealous that I'd even ask
08:39them if I could shave them for them. So my camp friends will tell you I've shaved their
08:43legs, I've shaved their armpits, and I'm pretty good at it. And then around 8th grade I started
08:47shaving and I remember shaving my legs and my armpits and feeling so old. Once I had the
08:53razor in my hand I felt, wow, this is it. It was like the same feeling I had when I
08:57drove
08:57a car for the first time. I was like, I am shaving my body hair. It was great.
09:02Hava Schultz asked, how much did you vlog and how big was your following before you
09:07joined the R29 team? Before I worked at Refinery29 I actually didn't vlog at all. At that time
09:12I was really focused on my stop motion videos and creating artistic work that I was using
09:18as a portfolio to get my job at Refinery. And I think around the time that I started at
09:22Refinery29 I had about 2,000 Instagram followers and most of those people were either friends
09:27of mine or people that followed me to watch my stop motion videos.
09:30Maddie Tidro asks, how do you make long distance relationships work, especially ones from high
09:36school? How to make it work? First and foremost I think that there's just something innately
09:40that some people have that makes them able to do long distance relationships. And I can't
09:45verbalize it, I don't know what it is, but some people have that ability and other people
09:49just can't do it. And that's okay. The second most important thing is trust. The third is the
09:54ability to visit one another. And the final thing is having a real willingness to grow on
09:59your own. Just because you're in a relationship it doesn't mean that you should stop prioritizing
10:03yourself and taking care of yourself and growing as an individual. So having a real, real willingness
10:09to take care of yourself and allow yourself to be present where you are and to make friends
10:13and do things on your own is actually really important to the future growth of your relationship.
10:18Emil Johnston asks, have you ever had dark times in the past with self-doubt, insecurity,
10:23depression, etc. And if so, how do you deal with them? In high school, pretty early on,
10:28my sister Allie and I realized that we weren't exactly that similar to everyone else. So if
10:34you asked us what our ideal Saturday night looked like, we wanted to put on pajamas, put
10:39on fuzzy socks, throw a movie on, and eat some popcorn. A lot of people we were friends with
10:43wanted to go out, they wanted to try smoking, they wanted to drink a lot. Stuff that just didn't
10:48sound that much fun to us. In high school, a lot of times the people that are really into
10:53the partying and drinking and trying the drugs, those are the cool people. And I felt like
10:58something must have been different or wrong about me because I didn't want to do that.
11:03And I think the way that I dealt with it was that somehow at 15 I had the foresight to
11:10recognize
11:10that my life was going to be so much bigger than what was happening right then and there
11:16in high school. And I really do think it's hard for a lot of middle schoolers and high
11:19schoolers to recognize in the moment that their current situation and their current
11:23gossip and all the drama is just not going to be important one day because you think
11:28that's it. You think this is your life, this is your bubble, this is your world. But if
11:32I can impart one piece of wisdom on you, if you are stressed and struggling and feeling
11:37insecure or feeling like you don't fit in, just know many of the people that are currently
11:42important to you right now will not have any importance in your future life. And you as
11:46you get older will be able to pick and choose who you remain friends with and who stays close
11:51to you. The Cowaburger says, Girl, I got some real-ish. A couple things I'm curious about
11:56with being an internet personality. One, how do Instagram sponsorships slash advertisements
12:02work with you? Or two, how do you get with all the photographers who do pics for you? Great
12:07questions that I think everyone who's on Instagram who sees sponsored posts should know. First
12:13and foremost, when you have any semblance of an Instagram following, brands are going
12:18to naturally reach out to you and want to send you their products. Most of the time, I'd
12:22say 80% of the time, they're not sending you money to post the products, they're just sending
12:27you the products. And I've now turned Thursdays on my Instagram stories into Thank You Thursday
12:31so I can thank all these companies for these products. But at the same time, there are plenty
12:36of products that I'm getting that I'm not showing. And that's because I either don't
12:40believe in the brand or I don't particularly care about it and I don't want to push it onto
12:44my audience, things like that. So the next phase of this sponsored Instagram world is
12:48when a brand actually pays you to post about their product. And that's a completely different
12:53story than just a PR company reaching out. That's actually a formalized program, there are
12:57contracts involved, you've signed something, you've agreed, you get the product, you post,
13:02and then you get paid. If you see hashtag ad or hashtag sponsored on the post, that's
13:06their way of disclosing to you that it was paid. I don't want to speak for everyone but
13:10whenever I take on a paid sponsored partnership, it's a brand that I actually really do like
13:15and really care about promoting. And then for the next question about how I get photographers
13:20to work with me, a lot of times we just connect over Instagram. If I see there's a New York
13:24City based photographer whose work I particularly like, I'll reach out and ask if they want to
13:29collaborate. Sometimes they reach out to me and they ask if we can set up a time for them
13:33to shoot me. And then we both will share the photos individually on our feeds and it becomes
13:37mutually beneficial. Tessa Lynn Hunter asks if you could work anywhere rather than Refinery29,
13:43where would you work? I think I'd work for NASA. I want to go into space. Yeah, in another
13:49life I think I'd be an astronaut flying through space, zero gravity, squirting water into the
13:54air and biting little balls of water as they float by. MiraP36 asks where did the name Lucy
14:00come from? Good question and there's an answer. My full name is Lucinda and I was actually
14:05named after Lucinda Scalaquin, who is one of my parents' really good friends and she's
14:10actually a TV personality with Martha Stewart. She's a chef, she's got a show, and my mom
14:15and dad always loved her name. So when they knew they were having kids, they actually asked
14:19her for permission to use the name Lucinda for one of their daughters. And as a young
14:23girl her nickname was Cindy and she told my parents, don't call her Cindy because I was
14:28called Cindy and I didn't love that name. I always wished I was Lucy. So if you take the
14:33name Lucinda, you have to call her Lucy for short. And my parents agreed and the rest is history.
14:38Thanks so much for watching this vlog. I really hope I answered all of these questions as well
14:42as I could have. We'll see you next week on Refinery29. Bye! Surprise! He's here! Bye!