Hitting newsstands today is the May issue of Real Simple Magazine! You may recognize a few familiar faces in this month’s edition 😉 This past February, our Los Angeles ‘Lillies flew to New York City to meet up with our NYC ‘Lillies, for an underwater photoshoot for the magazine!

“I did the St. Motel video shoot but it was a different style because that was a 3D video and these for Real Simple will be still shots,” ‘Lilly Kate said as we were getting ready to board our flight, “to be honest I don’t know what to expect but this is already way better than I could have imagined.”

The shooting location is the pool at the iconic 214 Lafayette: a five story townhouse in SoHo where Beyoncé shot her “Halo” music video! The photographer was placed one floor down, shooting from behind a window that looked directly into the pool (so cool!).

“For me, the hardest part of underwater photos was not floating to the surface and smiling even though water is going straight up your nose,” our ‘Lilly Georgia said.

“Most of the time, the photographer would wait until we were transitioning between poses before he snapped shots of us in motion,” explained ‘Lilly Kate, “sometimes he would relay a message through his assistants saying what was working, and what movements he would like to see again to try and capture.”

Here are a few of the photos from the issue, go to the nearest newsstand to get your copy!

Check out this video that features more Aqualillies underwater modeling: the Saint Motel Underwater 3D shoot that our ‘Lilly Kate mentioned earlier.