Twinning
Sisters Evelina and Lola Tajie on life in perfect sync.
Twenty-year-old London-based twins Evelina and Lola Tajie have turned the double-take into an art form with a delightfully absurd series of videos in which the models evoke the eerie, unsettling symmetry of the Grady sisters in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). On the final day of Gemini season (and their birthday!) we caught up with the pair to talk matching outfits, twin telepathy, and why spending seven hours apart can feel like losing a limb.
When did you start posting online, and what made you want to
Evelina Tajie: We started posting videos when we were 16. Initially, we enjoyed dressing up in interesting outfits, putting on makeup, and making videos for ourselves, but later we started going viral. This motivated us to take filming more seriously.
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Where are you based?
Lola Tajie: We live in London. It really inspires us. We love walking in parks and enjoying nature.
How do you relate to being Geminis?
Evelina: I think we’re a perfect representation: It’s like we have two personalities within each of us.
What’s something only the two of you would understand?
Lola: Life as the center of attention.
Describe each other in three words.
Evelina: Confident, eccentric, fun.
Lola: Perfectionist, caring, stylish.
What was your first shared obsession growing up?
Evelina: We crocheted toys and clothes together.
What’s your favorite movie?
Evelina: Crash (1996).
Lola: Dreamers (2002).
What’s the best part of having a twin?
Lola: The unconditional love. Your twin is the closest person you have: They will support you in everything, take care of you, and love you with the purest love forever.
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Who would survive longer on a reality show?
Evelina: Lola because she loves being social and interacting with people.
Lola: Yeah, I’m better at getting along with people and smoothing over conflicts.
What’s the last thing you influenced each other to buy?
Evelina: I pushed Lola to buy some colored jeans. She didn’t want to buy them because she thought they were useless, but I thought the idea was really funny. She ended up buying them but never wore them.
Lola: Just yesterday, I pushed Evelina to buy some pastries. She’s usually very careful about her figure and doesn’t like junk food, but I insisted and she enjoyed them.
How many hours do you spend together a day?
Evelina: We spend all our free time together and are rarely apart. We love shopping and coming up with new outfits for our videos. We also play sports together and hang out with friends.
What’s the longest amount of time you’ve ever spent apart?
Lola: Probably 7 hours, but whenever we’re away from each other we immediately start to feel like we’re missing some part of ourselves.
Who’s more likely to answer a text immediately?
Evelina: Lola is more likely to answer. She’s responsible for all our communication.