The Cruise Collection by Cuccio that I swatched has four cremes and three shimmers. All of the polishes are pretty thin and they are all thin enough to make flooding the cuticle an easy task, so use caution. The brushes are more on the plastic side but they are dense enough that it doesn’t make application difficult. These don’t dry matte but they don’t dry super shiny either. All of the cremes stamp pretty well, the shimmers stamp but they are very light.

Pier Pressure is the nude of the collection. Its shown in two coats with top coat. Pier Pressure had the longest wear time with no chips (with top coat). This was also thinnest polish of the collection. It was pigmented enough to only need two coats but if you were to wear it with just one coat it would be hard to get even coverage. I had an almost exact match for this one in my collection that I just reviewed recently, Prim-rose and Proper by Morgan Taylor, from the Botanical Awakenings collection. Prim-rose and Proper is just slightly darker than the Pier Pressure, and it is also a lot thicker formula-wise.

On Sail is a pale pink color. This is also shown in two coats plus top coat. On Sail was a little thicker than Pier Pressure and the first coat was way more even than it was with Pier Pressure. I wore this overnight and to work the next day (in a warehouse) and only had a few small chips at the tips on some of my nails by the time I got home.

All Decked Out is a nice coral color. Normally in nautical/cruise themed collections there will be a bright red but I really like this take on it, it adds a very nice soft tone to the collection. All Decked Out had the best formula of the collection in my opinion. The first coat went on the most evenly and the second coat was like butter. This one I didn’t wear as long as the others, I only wore it for about 3 hours. In those three hours there were no chips and I made dinner and did dishes during that time. I also had a dupe for this one, Sinful Colors Island Coral is a very close color, All Decked out has a little more pink in it though while Island Coral leans more orange.

I’ve Got The Blues is a nice royal blue color. This is also not the typical navy blue of a sea-themed collection but again I really like how this collection isn’t just like every other one. I’ve got the Blues could be worn in one coat, it was almost completely opaque in just one coat. I added a second because the first coat was slightly streaky. This one had the best wear time in the collection, with eight-isa hours total. I worked a full day and by the time I was getting ready to take it off there were no chips. Also, since this shade is so pigmented clean up is a little complicated because as soon as that blue touches the skin, it stains.

I Want Moor – a nice creamy rose gold color with gold shimmer. This polish took three coats to be opaque but it also looks very nice with only two coats. I Want Moor is nearly impossible to find a dupe for because of the shade of the peach and the gold shimmer.

Message in a Bottle is a light lavender color with contrasting pink shimmers (apparently its all about the contrasting shimmer this season). Message in a Bottle has more of a pink shimmer in it but really its more peachy than it is pink – also making it very hard to find a dupe for. Pink shimmer in purple polish has been done but I can’t find any polish that looks even close to this one.

Shore Thing is a bright baby blue with contrasting green shimmer. This also took three coats to be opaque. As far as finding a dupe, there just aren’t many polishes this shade of blue with a green shimmer in it, and the amount of shimmer that Shore Thing has.

We were missing All Tied Up, which is a lighter dusty blue than Shore Thing. Here is the stock photo: 

All of these colors are also available in Veneer, the all-gel polish, which are available on our Celebrity Beauty page here.

Emily also did a few super cute nautical nail art looks with the Colour Cruise Collection:

CUCCIO COLOUR CRUISE SWATCHES