Cuccio Colour Iron Clad

Cuccio Nail polishes have finally arrived here! This is really exciting, as I've been seeing all these amazing shades they have. I picked up a few polishes last week. One of them is Iron Clad from the Precious Metals collection, which looks and feels a lot like OPI Suede.
It took me a while to choose this shade, because the collection has 7 polishes. I chose the one that wasn't blue (since I have 2 blue-ish OPI Suede shades) and the one I thought I would wear the most.
So Iron Clad it is, a shade I would most likely call purple\aubergine matte shimmer. I like that this polish dries really fast AND it needs only one (!) coat.

 With top coat it looks equally great:

OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede

Mmm! I'm really happy right now. I've wanted this polish for what seems forever. And as it often happens, this was precisely the polish I couldn't find anywhere. Until very recently, when I spotted on ebay, being sold literally in the country next to mine, for a reasonable price and shipping. Yes!
So here it is, Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede. A beautiful dark green polish. It dries really quickly, and the application is much better than the blue suede I have. Two coats is plenty to make the polish nice and even. Oh and I managed to wear this polish for three days, which pleasantly surprised me.


Plus of course it looks amazing with a top coat on. What a beautiful shimmer! The polish looks so different when matte and shiny that I have trouble deciding which one I prefer. Both are really stunning.

OPI Ink Suede

I actually wanted to get Russian Navy Suede, but for some reason got this one instead. Oh well, I'll just have an excuse to get the other one later :)
This is my first OPI suede polish. It is probably the most difficult polish I've tried to put on. This is attempt number two, since the first one was unsatisfactory. The problem I had with putting it on was that one coat is not enough, while The second wouldn't go on smoothly. I figured it was because of the base coat - no matter how much i let it dry, the second color coat just smudges everything off. Agrr!!! So I tried it without the base, and it still didn't look all that great. So after a lot of trial and error I did manage to have 2 layers of polish and a base coat. Success!


I also really like how it looks with a top coat, perhaps even better than in the suede version. This way it is packed with gorgeous shimmer!!!