OPI Shatter Review

This product was well advertised and the effect looked awesome! It came out at a time where nail polish was becoming less boring and more complex than just a coat of glitter on top.

I got the original black one and it was a very cool product! I found it sometimes hard to use and get even across the nail which was really important to getting the right final look. After a few months of owning the product, it got quite thick in the bottle and very hard to apply, so maybe the formula needs a bit of work so that it has a longer shelf life.

I do like the range of OPI and was keen to try the shatter to create new effects with my nails. I originally had black then silver shatter. It goes on well and dries quickly but does need a top coat to get a nice polished shine look, and last longer. Also doesn't take long before the polish gets a bit gloopy, so buy some thinner to keep it going a bit longer.

i think this was really good and better than like all the other brands i tried. It didnt like clump and get hard and gross on my nail. it was smooth and easy to put on. it lasted long too. all the others that i tried were hard after a while and i regretted buying them. Also i like how i can get alot of colours like red where other brands only had like silver.

I purchased these as I heard so much hype about the OPI shatter! Unfortunately they are too over rated!

I have small nails and I think I only got 2 lots of shatter per hand. I was dissapointed. OPI has such a great reputation but I found these polish's usless. would love for them to improve the formula

I own the silver colour and I've used it a couple of times and the cracked shatter effect is awesome over the top of a vibrant colour. However, I will add that it didn't last long for before chipping away, maybe 2-4 days after I applied it.

Shatter Nail Polish, from what i remember this was a phase in the nail world maybe 2-3 years ago, which is still lingering around, although not as popular as it once was.

No surprises that i jumped on this bandwagon, and purchased the OPI shatter in both black and silver because those were the colors i thought would be most versatile.

They way these nail polishes work is you paint your nails as normal with your colour coats, and then place a reasonably thin layer of shatter on top, and while you wait for it to dry, it literally shatters before your eyes.

Like all OPI's this shatter range comes in the same weighted clear bottles, with the OPI logo imprinted on the front. The handle is plastic and black, and the brush is applies nail polish smoothly and evenly, but the brush is nothing special.

I found the formula on this nail polish to be good on one level, but no so good on the other. It was good because the colour was pigmented, and so you only needed to use one coat, which is good because you can only use one coat for the shatter effect. The formula let me down because i find the nail polishes a bit thicker than the regular OPI. This means at times, the coat was way to thick to create a good shatter, and it also meant these nail polishes dried up really fast. I think they dried up in around 6 months, which i think is ridiculous.

Overall, a nice idea to create a new nail look, but small imperfections, and a change in trends, as well as personal preferences ensure i wont be repurchasing this product again.

Like the title says, I find this very hard to get the shatter to work properly; like I don't want to put too much polish but then I don't want to under use and this is my problem. I think that if you're a beginner, then it's best to stay clear cause you're just wasting your money. But if you are a pro, then this should be no sweat for you. I only have the white one and It looks great if you've done it right!

if applied correctly it looks great , but you need to get a nice even coat first try or else it looks clumpy and ugly in my option. it is quick drying as you can watch it start drying and cracking (creating the shatter effect) .it looks pretty and cute when applied right, worth the money!

Definitely a cool and pretty effect. I purchased in almost all the different colours and found they look great when applied. One down side is that you need to get an even thick coat for the best results, reapplication will just make your nails look pretty gross in my opinion. I also found that mine dried up quite quickly so they tended to be a bit lumpy when I tried to apply them, warming them up a bit in a cup of boiling water for 30 seconds seemed to fix this though.