OPI Shatter Review

As a huge fan of OPI i was very excited when they came out with shatter polish. However i am not a huge fan. The product is quite thick and clumpy compared to the usual formula of OPI nail polishes making it harder to apply and spread out. I don't know if anyone else has had this problem but quite often with mine, some areas on the nail would not shatter so i ended up with just a random patch of nail polish which didn't look the best. I have tried the black, blue and gold shades. The black looked the best, the gold was the easiest to apply and the blue straight up sucked! It did not shatter at all and the whole bottle dried out after about 2 months with the lid on tight which was strange. I wouldn't repurchase due to the high price. I have tried "cheap" brands of shatter and they are the same quality as this, if not the slightest bit better.

I love my shatters, i have a white one that looks AMAZING over black polish. They can go a bit gluggy, it's just the nature of the stuff, but nothing a bit of thinner wont fix. It's relatively thin (in its normal state!) and this is good for spreading it quickly over the nail. Sealed in with top coat this looks really good and lasts well. It can shrink, so best to do a smooth and accurate coat as close to the cuticle as possible

The final look of the nail Polish is great it cracks really well and does what it is supposed to except I have found with my black one it gets so gluggy and sets before i have painted the whole nail which stuffs it up a bit :(

I LOVE these shatter products, they have an amazing final look and are quite thin and just look really good. The only colour i don't like is the black which is really gluggy and goes on really thick and you can tell when you see it on your nails!! It works really well on nail polish that isn't o.p.i also!!

I pre ordered this stuff when it first came out and thought it was pretty amazing! I still do, it's a great way to make your nails just that little bit more interesting! I put my black shatter under Fluro nail polish and get a lot of great comments! Although it dries out very quickly and gets glugy so you have to be careful when using it that it's closed properly and as often as possible. When applying to the nail, thin coats give you a lot more cracks, thicker ones give you bigger, less cracks. But if you put too much on it probably won't crack at all! (I had that problem when I accidentally put too much on) but this nail polish is easy for anyone to use! :)

The shatter effect was unnoticeable and I felt it looked like a tacky job done by a three year old. Would not use again.

I expected sooo much from this product especially because it is OPI - and OPI is of very good quality. This however was very disappointing.

I tried it the first time, applying a very thin coat, but it applied like a normal nail polish colour that was transparent - it didn't "shatter" but it cracked very faintly so that it looked like I had a poor manicure job.

I then attempted it a second time applying a thick coat. While this did shatter, I was unimpressed with the quality. One or two cracked lines here and there- very poor quality.

Don't even bother attempting to put two coats on - because that is just a waste of time.

I will however say that, the black and white shatter works MUCH MUCH better than the red, silver or blue ones.

If you want a cheaper, better quality alternative, I recommend LA Girl Cracked effects polish.

I recently got one of these from a friend of mine and I couldn't wait to try it. But to be honest I was kind of dissapointed, I hoped it would work much better then it did and there are nail (shatter) polishes better than this at this price. The shatter effect did not work that well, but applying more made it look worse :/

This product is okay, I got it in the white and navy. The white one was kinda gluggy and went on like white out. The navy one was smoother but it didn't give a huge crackle effect. Overall it sort of does the job but isn't a fav of mine.

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...