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You can shorten Tesa to Tess, which is good; you can only lengthen Tess to Tessie, which is bad.

I like the sound and look of Lola, but really dislike the meaning. Tess I love, but could never use as my DH is Lebanese and in Arabic there is a word which sounds the same, but means goat!

Forgot to say Lola is my mum's friends adopted granddaughters name & Tess is granny Black's cat.

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Lola reminds me of a drag queen. Qoute Kinks song "she walks like a woman talks like a man my Lola"

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Don't like Tess for anything

I like Lola. Tess is ok as a nn for Teresa.

I love Tess. I am really into it at the moment. And at first I thought Lola and Tess were a sibset and I was like, "omg awesome." Lola and Tess, so flapper-fabulous.

I like Lola. I could never use it, but I appreciate it; it has a pretty, wispy quality that makes me alternately think of someone with a really strong personality or someone who's happily enigmatic.

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Tess sounds too simple and insubstantial to me. It's sweet but feels like it's missing something.

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I like both these names better as nns for something longer: Dolores, Charlotte, Lorelei, or even Gwendolen for Lola, and Therese, Tempest, or Theresa for Tess.

I dislike Lola, but that's mostly due to an association.

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I love Tess! It's nice as a given name or nickname, but I actually prefer it as a given name.