![]() ![]() Luca says they then realized, “Like, you know what, we’re kind of selling ourselves short,” and adds, “We don’t have to be behind the camera, we can be the stars in front of the camera. ![]() This led them to revisit their old dolls and deduce, “No, no, no, there’s something here that we can make our own,” says Cooper. “And that’s when the lightbulb went off,” Cooper explains. As photographers, they didn’t get to do the makeup, the hair, the direction, etc., and they realized what they loved wasn’t the photography itself, but creating transformations. In college, the siblings’ photography projects became more professional, though they didn’t feel as involved as they once were, with what they deemed to be too many cooks in the kitchen. Cooper recalls, “We were in our little shells. Though at the time they weren’t out yet, Cooper and Luca didn’t see themselves as the confident superstars they were transforming others into. Who were we going to transform next and make into a Glamazon? And have them be confident and be able to stunt on the girlies in high school.” So these high school girls that were our friends, became the fun thing in our school. Like our whole thing is anyone can feel like a superstar. So we kind of love transforming them and kind of bringing out that side.”Ĭooper nods, “Making them feel beautiful. They weren’t high fashion models or anything. Luca recounts, “They’re just normal everyday girls. So I think it’s really cool that you can transform yourself, and you feel this bad bitch energy, you feel this aura.”Īfter their experience transforming Bratz dolls but before they transformed themselves, the brothers would transform, style, pose, and photograph their friends. “It’s just maybe lying dormant, or it may be resting. “It’s not that makeup gives you the confidence to be this person or like makes a new person come about that person is always there,” says Cooper. “I love transformative makeup where it takes you to the next level and you see yourself in a light that you normally wouldn’t,” says Luca.įor them, transformative makeup is more than a makeover, but also what they describe as a “mental” transformation. So, how did the twins go from making over dolls to themselves? In between, they found a zeal for transforming others. employee made our day at the end□ #drivethru #prank #fastfood ♬ original sound – SUGAR & SPICE✨ To their 4.5 million followers on TikTok, Cooper and Luca are respectively Sugar & Spice - their Y2K bimbo glamour queen-inspired drag personas. Out of the closet, the pair are no longer twins, but now regard themselves as quadruplets. In 2018, the siblings published their viral YouTube video “Twins come out to mom & you won’t believe her reaction.” Life-size Regardless of whether or not one twin kicked the other out of the womb, Luca and Cooper have done everything together - even come out as gay to the world. I always say, ‘No sweetie, you didn’t come out first, I kicked you out first.’” “I mean, I did pop, uh, kick out of the womb, even though he came out seven minutes earlier. This prompts Luca to joke, “What are we, magicians?” to which Cooper responds, “If you want to get hippie-dippy trippy Chicken Noodle Soup for the Teenage Soul, then yeah, you know, it’s meant to be.” Like, we were destined to make magic together.” “With us working together, it’s kind of like all we’ve ever done,” says Cooper. Like with twins - I feel like if you’re not a twin, like you don’t get it, but then if you’re a twin you get it, but then maybe if you’re not a twin you always wonder…” That’s kind of how we clung to each other because we couldn’t relate to anyone else,” says Cooper.Īfter asking if there are any twins in my life (tragically no), his brother Luca remarks, “I mean, I think it’s pretty much all we know. “We didn’t have any friends, we just had each other. ‘Why can’t we hang out on the weekends?’ No, you can’t come into our room! No, no, no, no, no!” But it was also a bond the twins could share with each other. Cooper recounts, “Like, we could not let anyone know we had dolls. It was a secret fascination they kept on the down-low. Together they joined doll collection groups and entered weekly photo competitions on the site, prompting them to deepen their knowledge of photography, creative direction, styling, hair, and makeup for the dolls. Pre-YouTube, the twins developed an interest in Bratz dolls, whom they styled, made up, posed, photographed, and shared on the online photo community, Flickr. SEE ALSO: 12 Asian American drag queens that slay face and serve representation realness The secret life of two American teenagers Though Luca says, “That closet door was see-through.” They introduced themselves to the world on YouTube in 2016 as college bros studying photography at FIT. Identical twins Cooper and Luca Coyle have lived several lifetimes on the internet.
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