Lucy Edwards
Youtuber and reporter
For the past five years Lucy has been running a YouTube channel where she talks about living with blindness and breaking the stereotypes about blindness – mixed in with beauty tips and tutorials. Lucys YouTube video “Blind girl does her own make-up” went viral in 2015 making her a role model to thousands of viewers around the world.Lucy is a makeup expert with a unique perspective on how to use it, and the confidence it brings. Lucys say “This is something that is visual, but there are techniques to really make us feel good. Even though I can’t see a mirror anymore, I control the way I look because I have the strategies, and it’s made me feel more empowered.”
With 28K YouTube subscribers, her unique brand of beauty vlogging has led her to become the first blind brand partner of the US makeup giant CoverGirl and she is now an author to the first ever ‘Blind Beauty Guide’ recently launched on Amazon kindle.
Lucy has worked as a Broadcast Assistant for BBC Ouch!, and is a freelance reporter and journalist across many BBC departments. Her features have focused on accessibility and transport issues such as navigating train stations with sight loss, or the additional difficulties snow creates: when sound is dampened down and her guide dog isn’t certain where the kerb is.
Lucy often vlogs about her black Labrador Retriever guide dog Olga, and fundraises for the charity Guide Dogs UK. She has run both the Silverstone Half Marathon and the London Marathon with her running guide Steve, raising £3000. In 2017, in recognition of her work, she was honoured with the Guide Dogs Young Person’s Achievement award, and has continued to raise money ever since.
Lucy has also started to work with the charity LOOK UK, which helps young visually impaired people and their families, by holding workshops and talks in order to support blind people to be able to apply their makeup with confidence.