Essie Nail Art Studio Special Effects leads with 8 of 8, though that is a small group. Essie Pinks Nail Polish has a larger group behind it at 21 of 29, and every other polish here chips for more reviewers than it holds up for. People tend to mention chipping when it happens to them, so shares run low across this page.
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Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for chipping. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Best record Essie Nail Art Studio Special Effects 8 of 8 say it doesn't chip See price & reviews on Amazon Shade praise runs high even where staying power is low: 67% of Orly reviews and 66% of OPI Pinks reviews praise the shades, yet just 14 of 29 and 10 of 27 say it doesn't chip.
Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
Essie
Everyone who took a side said it doesn't chip (8 of 8), but that is a small group. Reviewers like the shades (44%), and 33% say it's slow to dry.
Essie
Best for shades and shine
More reviewers back this one than the leader: 21 of 29 at Ulta said it doesn't chip. Reviewers praise the shades (60%), the shine (37%) and fast drying (27%).
No repeated complaints yet.
Orly
Shades are the draw (67%), but 15 of 29 Ulta reviewers who mentioned chipping said it chips. 13% also mention peeling.
No repeated complaints yet.
OPI
17 of 27 Ulta reviewers who mentioned chipping said it chips. Praise goes to the shades (66%), and 14% call it streaky.
OPI
Best for fast drying
Fast drying is the draw (45%), but staying power isn't: 20 of 29 reviewers who mentioned chipping said it chips. 10% mention peeling.
Sally Hansen
Store results differ: 7 of 23 at Ulta said it doesn't chip, against 5 of 5 on Sally Hansen's own site, which we show but don't count. Fans say it lasts a week or more (26%).
No repeated complaints yet.
Zoya
20 of 28 Ulta reviewers who mentioned chipping said it chips, the weakest record here. Shades get the praise (30%), and 13% say it's too expensive.
The 7 products ranked here carry 36,488 reviews at Ulta. We searched them for chipping and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Mar 2018 and Oct 2026.
A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.
Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.
Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.
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Essie Nail Art Studio Special Effects leads at 8 of 8, from a small group. Essie Pinks Nail Polish has more reviewers behind it at 21 of 29.
Often, by these reviews. 17 of 27 Ulta reviewers who mentioned chipping said OPI Nail Lacquer Pinks chips, and 20 of 29 said the same about OPI RapiDry Quick-Dry Lacquer.
At Ulta, often: 16 of 23 reviewers who mentioned chipping said it chips. On Sally Hansen's own site, 5 of 5 said it doesn't chip, which we show but don't count.
People tend to write about chipping when it happens to them, so a low share doesn't mean a polish is bad for everyone. Use the ranking to compare polishes with each other.
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