The shatter effect nail polish... Dead and gone or just having a little nail nap?

Nails on the mind and polish on the nails...


The shatter effect nail polish trend has been around for a while now, and though i am late on the band wagon i am loving it! I remember the first time i had come across this new type of nail polish. It was over a year ago and i was in a dance class and one of my class mates was showing off her brand new nail polish. From what i recall she had actually bought her shatter effect nail polish from the Barry M collection and the next week another girl in our class had bought the same nail polish and was rocking the look. The whole trend really confused me. I hate it when my nails chip away and i have to go around with my nails looking a state until i find the motivation to strip and repaint my nails and even then, after a day they have already began to chip away and i have to repeat the cycle. This nail polish trend makes your nails look horrifically chipped the moment you put it on! I refused to succumb to the trend and paint my nails with the shatter effect top coat. I went months and months using the same nail polish technique i had always used, coating each nail with the nail paint and keeping my fingers crossed it will last more than a day before they start to look awful again.

L & B Nail polish- Batch #9267*Avon Mosaic effects- Black

Then a week ago, everything changed. After arriving home from uni for the Easter holidays, my mum had brought me a few pieces of make up from Avon (a personal favorite make up brand of mine) as a sort of 'welcome home my child' sort of present. In my bag of goodies i had 2 Kohl eye liners (one black and one gray), a Glimmer stick in black and 2 nail polishes a gorgeous dark green (perhaps not the most appropriate with spring nearing, but still a beautiful color) and the other a bottle Avon mosaic effects in black! At first i felt that i wouldn't really wear the mosaic effect nail polish much, but seeing as my mum had bought this for me, i would wear it at least once whilst i was home for these 3 weeks if anything to be polite and appreciative. So today i decided which color to put under the mosaic effect nail polish (I went with L & B nail polish- Batch #9267 which is a clear glittery nail polish, which before now i have always used to put over the top of other nail polishes to funk them up a bit) i applied around 3 coats of the glitter nail polish to build up a thick undercoat full of glitter and just enough sparkle, then i applied to my nails the mosaic effect nail polish and watched as magic happened before my eyes! 

My nails were shattering and beginning to look like small canvases being painted with splishes and sploshes of black paint in random positions and each crack of the black appearing in different places on every nail, making the effect unique on all 10 nails.

One thing i did find is that with the Avon mosaic effect nail polish the thicker i applied the nail polish the better and more distinct the effect. Of course i cant assume that of all top coat nail polishes giving a similar effect as this one will need the same thickness of the coat.
One thing i can say about this nail polish is its incredibly affordable at just £6 and available from either you Avon Representative or from the Avon website (http://avonshop.co.uk/product/make-up/nails/avon-mosaic-effects-top-coat.html), and right now it is down half price to only £3 and they also offer it in white. This trend may be done and over but i don't agree, To avoid getting tired of this trend make sure you continually mix it up, use the white and black shatter nail polish and experiment with different under coat colors, i know i am looking forward to painting my nails rainbow colors and then applying the mosaic effect nail polish to try something new. This look can turn a cute baby pink or pastel color from looking girly and innocent to edgey and dangerous or someone who likes to paint their nails more dark and mysterious and give them a more feminine girly look to their nails.
Get experimenting girls and guys... this look is not lost, so dust off your shatter effect nail polish from the back of your nail polish collection and get applying.

Have you used the shatter effect nail polishes before? What do you think of them? 

Thanks for reading my lovlies :) 

Paige. xxxxx