A Zoya A Day - Chelsea and Tosca

Hey Friends

Today on the blog we meet Chelsea and Tosca

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Chelsea
Year - 2007
Number - ZP0425
Coats - 2
Finish - Metallic
Collection - Uptown
Colour - Red
Topcoat - No

Chelsea is discontinued but can be described as a scarlet red with copper and orange tones and a frosty red metallic shimmer.

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Tosca
Year - 1980s
Number - ZP0009
Coats - 2
Finish - Metallic
Collection - Classic
Colour - Red
Topcoat - No

Tosca is discontinued but can be described as a light strawberry red kissed by sunny golden shimmer. 

Chelsea is gorgeous and I think Ember must have been based on her, shes a very bright metallic red, good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats. I've compared them below, the only thing I could say is that Ember has finer milled shimmer particles (I think).

Tosca is one of my prized Zoya, if the house was on fire I'd grab her first, she is extremely rare and I still am amazed I found her, on ebay of all places.

Tosca has a great formula given this bottle is at least 25 years old, no running or pooling but sheer, if I'm going to wear her for a full mani I tend to do three coats. In my bottle shot with Chelsea you can see how much I've used.

As you can see she doesnt have a label so I owned her for quite a while before I manged to get Zoya themselves to confirm the colour, I knew I didnt already own the shade as I'd compared her to all the reds I owned at that time, as you know, trying to comparing a polish you own against online photos is quite tough with a red. 

So this bottle is the original design Zoya used when they first launched in 1986, almost the inverse of their bottle shape today, I love the gold branding and the font style, they were toluene and formaldehyde free even then. They changed the bottle shape in 1997 to the one they use today but kept the styling from the original, then they changed again in 2005 to the font we now know. I love that on the back of the bottle they say dont shake it, roll it between palms.