Earth Day nail look: OPI’s Blue Shatter (swatch & review)

In honour and celebration of Earth Day (which, incidentally, should be celebrated each and every single day in my opinion…but I digress!) I bring you my take on our incredible planet’s signature look: blue & green. Following on the heels of the super successful Black Shatter, OPI is launching several more hues in the shatter family – Blue, Navy and Turquoise Shatter. Red and White Shatter respectively, will be available as part of the continuing collections of the Serena Williams Grand Slam Duos (reviews coming soon!). Today’s look was created with ‘Blue Shatter’ – a shimmery cerulean blue, and Zoya’s ‘Ivanka’ – an intense emerald green foil shade. Swatches are with OPI’s Natural Nails base coat, three coats of the base lacquer, one coat of Shatter and OPI’s Start to Finish top coat.

‘Ivanka’ – an insanely vivid and jewel-like green hue, was originally released last year as part of Zoya’s Sparkle Collection. This is one of those polishes that has a bit of everything; shimmer, glass flecks, a foil-like shine and a touch of duochrome as well. Like crushed emeralds covering your nails, it defies you to not stare at it, much like the lush greenery that covers our beautiful earth and equally impressive. Over that, I layered one thin coat of ‘Blue Shatter’ – an azure blue shade with a subtle silvery shimmer in its base, bringing to mind our endless skies and life-giving oceans. As with all shatter polishes, you need to apply it over a completely dry base colour and I used three different methods here:

pinkie & ring fingers – applied vertically, much like regular polish
middle finger – applied across the nail in a horizontal manner
index finer – applied across the nail in a diagonal pattern

Personally, I think the horizontal layering gave the most ‘earth-like’ effect (middle finger), but I absolutely love this combo, no matter how it’s applied! ‘Ivanka’ is somewhat sheer and worn alone you would definitely need three coats for full opacity, but you can definitely get away with two coats if it’s to be layered. Unlike ‘Black Shatter’ which was slightly thick, ‘Blue Shatter’ has an easier and thinner consistency and shatters in a beautiful array of patterns. The shimmery finish is a wonderful bonus as well!

Final thoughts: By now, most of us have already tried some form of the new shatter polishes available out there, and I must say that ‘Blue Shatter’ is not only easy to use, but easy on the eyes as well. It lends itself to so many colour combinations and you will only be limited by your imagination (and selection!). Available in May, it will be a limited edition effect polish, so get it while you can!

LOVE OUR EARTH !!