OPI Shatter Review

I bought these when they first came out, been a pretty stoic OPI customer. From memory OPI were the first polish brand to make these type of polishes, and they were very popular at the time.

Like most early adopters, I have the black shade, though it later became available in a number of colours.

It is easy to apply, but does take a bit of practice to get the shatter effect quite right. I did rock shatter effect nails for a while, but have since destashed it to my sister who has quite the OPI collection of her own.

A fun trend and unique trend to try, but one that has fallen out of favour now.

I purchased the black shatter nail polish when it first came out and I really liked it, i tried it over a lot of colours from OPI. It was really fun to watch it form the shatter effect. When applying onto my nails I had to make sure I had a good amount on the brush and only do one coat because it doesn't work very well if you apply more coats, it goes streaky and doesn't shatter properly. I also noticed it started going really thick in the bottle and was hard to apply so had to throw it out after awhile. Probably won't buy it again I prefer my nails just one colour but maybe one day if they still have it I would purchase it for my daughter to try.

I had a couple of these nail polishes, I do like the effect that you can get from these without having to be super amazing at nail art.

They are easy enough to use, simply apply whatever colour of normal nail polish that you like (I did try on bare nails once and it didn't work out!), and then once that is dry apply a thin coat of the shatter polish. You do have to work quickly as it starts to 'shatter' almost straight away and once it has started you can't really add more on or it won't work. Also if you go to thick, it won't really work either- it will just look messy.

Overall, I think these polishes are alright, I don't actually think these ones live up to the opi standards though which is a shame. I find the avon brand shatters are actually a lot easier to use so I wouldn't buy another one of these again.

I love the idea of this product and the way it looks on other people but for me I just hate it and have to remove it straight away.Great OPI formula as always and the fact it comes in lots of different colours is pretty neat.

I had a lot of fun with shatter at first. It was superfun thinking up new colour combos (personal fave gold shatter over deep violet).

Fast forward a year or so later and I have 3 bottles of this stuff I haven't touched since.

I found it quite easy to use although it definitely needs to go over 2 coats of OPI or similar quality other brand. My flatmate could never get it to look right though it was always really uneven and not at all pretty.

I have the Dark Blue and Red. The Blue has a cool effect over white. It didnt work very well on a different branded base polish, it dried and looked over dry, when I used a clear top coat it kind of smudged the effect. So diffentialy stick to OPI for the base colour. The red shatter just looked horrifing, I wouldnt recommend that colour. Found it good for an occasional change, but wont be going out of my way to buy again.

I never personally liked the shatter look, but in saying that they are good polishes, as long as you put on thinly, too think and they definitely do not "shatter", but they have definitely done there dash in the popularity category

i loved the shattered look because you can change ur base colour and it would be a different change.The base colour has to be completely dry and have a couple coats on it, before you apply the shatter coat over it.

I loved the concept of the shatter ! When I did get it I was a bit disappointed with the finished looked as it dried with a matte finish - Only having it for a couple of month the lacquer become thick and unusable :( was very disapointed

Shatter can only be pulled of with certain outfits.

If not done right it can come across as tacky.

You really need to ensure you pick the right base colours to go with the shatter.