OPI Shatter Review

I purchased five Opi nail polishes at once. If you are wanting a one to two day job for this to work you will not be dissatisfied. Any longer you will be disappointed. The color range available is very nice, ranging from clear to metallic colors and also that good old favorite, black. Naturally the black makes any under color you apply look fabulous. You absolutely need at least one (maybe two) bottles of the clear polish, as this sets the finish and certainly makes your nails shine and gleam. So overall, great for a one maybe two day/night job, but other than that, the flaking will certainly appear by day three.

It's okay. It does what it says it does. But let's be honest - this ship has sailed and shatter isn't cool any more. That didn't last long, did it?! I found my shatters started going horrible in the jar after just a few uses! too. All clogged up around the top and hard to get out. I've never had nail varnish do this before?! My 5 year old daughter likes it, so I just use it on her now.

I bought a couple of these in gold and another in green. I actually really loved the look of both, but they go gluggy and crusty after about two uses. It's also really difficult to apply them in a consistent manner and gave your nails all look great. I found some would look stubbing, and then others would ge either streaky or really bunchy and blotchy. Great in theory, but the execution not quite so sound.

I own several shades of shatter and have found some, like the black shade to look pretty amazing over the top of a bright polish. However, some of the other shades such as the red, navy and blue were watery, didn't really crack and made it look like I'd had a bad manicure, and no girl wants that!

This is the only OPI that I am not a fan of, I did really enjoy this when it came out as it is very fun to use but got over it pretty quickly. My bottle also dried out extremely fast so was pretty disappointed.

I remember when everyone did their nails like this! My white is my favorite because it looks good against any other base colour but i find it hard to get the perfect amount on the nail. Apply to much and the shatter doesn't work but apply to little and it just looks silly. I really like how you get quite alot in the OPI bottles and the polish dries reasonably fast so there's no waiting around. I haven't used any of the shatter colours since they stopped being popular because alot of the 'older folk' have made comments (especially on the white) on how it looks like you've just put correction fluid all over your nails. I have the colours white, red and blue.

I am so confused as to why there was such a massive hype about this product!? It never works on my nails it looks clumpy and doesn't have the nice shatter look that I had expected from looking at pictures. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but this product really doesn't do what it's ment to and I would most probably never use it again.

When done right it looks awesome however I had trouble getting it to look nice found it a bit fiddly.

I was quite disappointed with this product. LOVED the idea and was really wanting it to be good however I found it hard to apply the right amount, too little and it would not shatter properly and too much and it would just not shatter at all. It was really hard to get the right amount so would end up having to repeat some nails and it just got too frustrating...

Let's start with the negatives I don't like the concept of this. To me it seems like your nails are chipped and I don't feel it is a sophisticated look. On the other hand if this is the look for you I do think OPI is the best brand out there I have tried to achieve this look. It goes on smooth and cracks evenly as long as you use another opi underneath. The polish does last a decent amount of time.