There's already a bug in the tent.
So you will never guess what Michael and I have decided to do tonight. Actually
maybe you will guess it because you've probably already clicked into this video
you probably already saw the title so you might know what we're doing but we are going camping
in the backyard. Young Lucie was a camper, young Lucie loved the outdoors. She loved going camping.
I remember actually one year in my childhood the bronx zoo did this amazing outdoor sleepover
experience where children and their parents could come and tent in the bronx zoo with the animals.
When my family heard about this my brother and I freaked out. We were so excited and my sister
wanted nothing to do with it so my dad took me and my brother to the bronx zoo and we did an
overnight camping excursion and it was incredible and I always thought of myself as a camper. Then
comes adult Lucie and adult Lucie thought that she was a camper because childhood Lucie was a camper
but adult Lucie turns out she's just not a camper. How do I know this? Well about a year ago a little
over a year ago Michael and I went with our friends Lauren and Stan on a camping expedition.
I don't even know if I can call it camping. It was more like glamping. It was one of those companies
where there are assembled tents that actually have beds in them you don't have to pitch anything you
don't have to really bring anything. You just show up and it's a preset campsite and it's definitely
glamping we went on a very cold weekend in the fall when we got there the tent had the flaps
open and that was really nice that the host left it kind of set up for us and left it open like it
was an outdoor experience but when we got there I went into the tent and I was taking a little look
around and I noticed it looked like there was some really interesting wallpaper on the wall
like almost like these little sticks on the wall and so I went up to it to look at the wallpaper
and it turned out it was just lines of bugs like stick bugs in a row pretty much on every
corner of the canvas so that was my first introduction to adult camping was being
in an enclosed space filled with bugs. I'm not a bug person. I really dislike
bugs. If you watch my Nicaragua video, you'll see that I went to an eco lodge
in Nicaragua for a week and there were a lot of big bugs and it was very scary for me that's okay.
Just breathe it's happening so i'm not a bug person to begin with and here i am in a canvas
tent filled with bugs long story short adult Lucie doesn't love camping but adult Lucie loves to push
herself to do things that she doesn't love to have new experiences and try new things as you
know so that's why I came up with the idea that I wanted to go camping and to make it a little bit
less intense I decided let's just do it in the backyard. We don't need to go to a campsite, we
don't need to go into the middle of the wilderness where we don't know what's going to approach us.
The backyard is a very safe space. We have a fence around the entire property which is meant
to keep big animals like deer away so we don't think anything's gonna come up to us except for
maybe a bunny. My birthday was a couple months ago and for my birthday a couple family members
got me Amazon gift cards and I decided to put the gift cards towards purchasing the tent and
also wait for it a blow-up mattress. So this is where non-camping adult Lucie comes in once again.
I cannot sleep on the ground I tried five days of sleeping on the floor for an episode of Try Living
with Lucie and it really hurt my back. I know it's actually supposed to help people's backs
did not help mine. I am a very soft mattress kind of girl. I like sinking into a cloud of
fluffy pillows fluffy sheets and a soft mattress so I didn't think attempting to sleep on the
ground was a good move especially given that if you followed me on Instagram you'll know I've
been experiencing some back pain lately so I needed to be comfortable so I'm very excited
to see what happens and in other words, we are going glamping in the backyard. Let's do it.
Hey ready to go camping? Oh yeah definitely.
We did it. We popped it up and now I'm in. Wow.
Pretty cool it's popped. Oh hi welcome to my tent.
All right, so here is the tent. Can you unzip that?
Hello hello! Okay so here's the tent. There's this back door zipper then as you move around it
just closed on the side and then here's your main entrance right here.
Hey how's it going? Great. All right so this is where we're sleeping tonight. It looks
it's early evening so I'm going to bed now the main thing I'm excited about sleeping outdoors
is looking up at the stars at night. I'm also excited about waking up and getting some fresh
air into my lungs from the outdoors that's always something I try to do when I wake up so now it
will be forced upon me. I'm excited just to have a new experience sleep outdoors excited for all the
wildlife that's probably going to creep around our tent. Yeah just to be in nature, you know? I know
I'm really excited so let's go blow up the mattress now and get it in here. Sounds good.
The mattress is blown and it's very comfortable to be honest. I'm really excited about it so now
all we have to do is carry it outside and get it into the tent which could be a bit of a struggle
but we'll film the whole process.
Coming through! Whoa careful don't wet our mattress. Oh my
gosh.
A bug! There's already a bug in the tent
so we do plan on having dinner inside of the house tonight we're not doing a full-on
camping experience with the campfire or anything like that but I am going to try to embody
the experience as much as possible so I'm not planning on washing my face and doing my skincare
routine tonight and if you've watched my previous videos you know that's a big deal for me because
I follow my skincare routine religiously. Differin actually sponsored this video even though I pretty
much have stuck to the same skincare routine that I started a few months ago. I did start adding in
a few products here and there so I filmed this last night to show you what new products I've
been using my skincare routine of the moment is pretty much exactly what it was in a previous
video so I'm not going to go through it all. One product that's made the biggest difference
for me is the different edapoline gel it's an over-the-counter prescription strength retinoid
and I've been tracking my progress with it in the clear 90 app which basically allows you to
go through 90 days and see how your skin changes as you're using the product. Here are some photos
from when I first started doing that and here are some more recent photos. This is my skin
right here right now with nothing on it I have no makeup on and this is how it looks. I always
love experimenting and exploring with new things just to see how they feel and if they're working
and then if they do seem to be good. I try to incorporate them more long term so I have three
new different products that I've started using recently and I actually have started using them
in a more regular way so I want to share them with you in this video. First is this pore minimizing
toner it has witch hazel in it and I just put this on on a reusable cotton pad and it basically
preps my skin for the adapalene gel which I use after this. Another is the resurfacing scar gel
this is a really great treatment for anyone that has acne scarring. Personally I only use it in
a couple of areas where I've picked at pimples in the past and I'm just trying to heal those regions
and the last product which is my personal favorite is the detox and soothes two-step treatment mask.
This product when you open it sort of looks like a little yin and yang and if you pop open the tops
you can see that it is two steps so the first step is the warming clay mask that's the white
side this is the detoxifying pore stage it feels really good and really warm and then you just
rinse it off with cool water after three minutes and put on the blue gel side and as opposed to
the warming clay the gel is very cooling so it almost feels like icy and cold on your face after
the warming clay and that you don't rinse off you just leave on my skin afterwards feels really cool
and tight and nice to touch so those are a few of my favorite products that I've been adding
in and really loving but for the most part I've tried to stick to a really simple skin regimen
because my skin's looking really good now and I don't want to do anything to mess that up.
I kind of feel like the mattress is deflating a bit not sure why but it doesn't feel as rigid
as it did when we first blew it up. Look at what's on the mattress! A broken leaf
straight from the bottom of my sock. Gotta get that off. We'll put it on the tent floor.
Bye! So although this is kind of unrelated to a camping video Michael just went to run an
errand and I'm just hanging in the tent alone so I figured I would use this moment to sort of open up
and share a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes in my business.
So I recently hired a new team member to join the Lucie Fink Media Team. She is virtual,
so she actually lives in Alabama and I'm really excited to get started working with her because
I've been needing a virtual assistant for a really long time now. There are so many moving parts
in my business there is oh I don't even know where to start. I have weekly youtube content,
daily Instagram content, a newsletter where I try to send an email out at least four times a month
or once a week. I have a Patreon membership where there are some incredible perks and I
have to be providing a lot of value to that community. I have a Facebook page,
I have a TikTok account and even with apps like Instagram there are now so many different parts
of the app that I need to create content for. So they're Instagram reels, Instagram stories,
IGTV and of course in feed posts and videos and I create a lot of online courses and e-learning
materials so I have an Instagram branding course, a stop-motion course and I'm working on
a Youtube mastermind course so because of that I got a lot of moving parts. I currently have
one person who works for me named Laura and she is sort of like my all-around content manager
in terms of helping me create content and manage all of my branded projects that I have going on
but I really was in need of another team member to help with a lot of the implementation. Things
email marketing funnels, copywriting and just generally lifting things off of my shoulders.
Whenever you get started in the content creation industry it's so normal to just take everything
on yourself and that kind of makes sense because you are the face of your brand, you're the voice
of your brand, you know what you want to share and say and honestly it's like easier to do it
yourself than to give it to other people sometimes but as my business grows and scales I'm realizing
how important it is to delegate tasks to people to make sure that people who are doing things for me
are actually better at those tasks than I am and so not only are they taking something off my plate
but they're helping me do the task even better and I just wanted to pop by for a second and remind
you if you are a content creator or you're someone who is starting a business or a brand for yourself
don't forget the power of delegating tasks you really can't grow a big giant business
all on your own even though some people make it seem like they've done that everyone who is
really wildly successful in business has support and has a great team around them so I'm really
excited about my new team and it looks really pretty right now. The sun is starting to shine
through the clouds I can see it on the tent and I'm very excited for this sleepover
experience.
All I have to say is we picked the most magical night to go camping because
the sky is so beautiful right now just behind the camera
it's orange and pink-purple glowing the clouds are strewn across the sky it looks unbelievable
so it's just really a perfect night to be out here and to be looking at the sky.
This is how I set up my phone to take good videos sitting on the edge of the barbecue
pit has a little pillow on the ground in case it falls and actually, I chose to use
my phone for this shot because as you can see in the camera looks horrible color-wise
but this footage and the phone wait until I show you what the phone footage looks like.
Okay we're in the tent. Here we are. We're tucked into bed. We have comfy blankets, sweatshirts and
sweatpants and socks on. We got pillows behind our heads. Michael's cell phone is set up is a little
light so we can film this for you and we're ready for bed. Pretty cozy in here. Quarters
are a little bit tight and Lucie's taking up about two-thirds of the bed.
I am. I'm like really close to you because I'm scared. I don't want to be. I think we might
have to switch sides because that side is like closer to the house and this site is closer to the
not house and I'm scared. Whatever you want. Let's switch sides right now. Oh god.
Oh god what are you doing? Really bad move.
Good? No now you still have two thirds of the bed and I have no blanket. Okay hold on, let me help
you. There we go. Now we're safely tucked in as I mentioned we did have dinner inside the house with
Michael's family but then when it came time to wash up for sleep all we did in the bathroom was
brush our teeth so I didn't do my skincare routine that I do every night Michael didn't do his
skincare routine that he does every night which is non-existent. He doesn't have a skincare routine.
Just being in the bathroom while you do yours is enough. I am a little bit scared because there's
like sounds going on around us and whenever the tent goes I think that there's a giant animal
outside. There might be we recently watched a show on Netflix called Alone if anyone has heard of
it it's very interesting and people basically get dropped off in the wilderness and have to survive
and they do not have any accommodations quite like this but still like bears come up to their
tent and it's really scary and so we're basically living that right now that's what I'm afraid of.
I'm afraid of a bear um my back feels like something's biting it. Do you think it is?
No no I don't think so. Okay maybe it's just a itchy blanket or something. We decided to not put
a sheet on the bed after all because we didn't want to wake up with like damp sheets so we're
just straight on the air mattress with our fluffy blankets and that's it so our plan is to try to
go to sleep now it's going to be a symphony of sounds around us listen to what is happening
outside. Is that a frog I swear there's something on my leg holy crap, holy crap.
I think you're just itchy okay anyway it sounds really nice outside so we're just gonna close our
eyes drift off to sleep imagine what the stars look like over us we, unfortunately, didn't get
the tent with the star hole on the top we'll see you when we wake up and we'll get some coffee.
Sleep tight. See ya. Good night. Good night!
Morning! Morning.
How'd you sleep? Um, it's not my best night of sleep ever but it was okay.
Yeah it was. I did a lot of tossing and turning. I woke up in the middle of the night. It's really
hot in here and so we woke up and we did this, which this is a screen so that felt really nice
but um overall now that the sun is starting to come in it's getting
like steamy. A little toasty in here. A little toasty. I think I need some fresh air and coffee.