Nail Polish Price Nykaa vs Myntra September 2026: Elle 18 at Rs. 57

Nail polish is sold in bottles of five to ten millilitres, and a 5 ml bottle at Rs. 42 is not cheaper than a 10 ml bottle at Rs. 96 — it is dearer per millilitre by a third. So the first thing we looked for on both shelves was the volume.

Myntra states it in 18 of its 19 polish titles. Blue Heaven's Color Shine says 5 ml, MARS's Cosmic Hues says 10 ml, Neze says 7 ml, shills says 7.5 ml. Nykaa states it in none of its 20. Not one polish, enamel, lacquer, base coat or top coat in the Nykaa set we read carries a volume in its listing title — it is on the product page, but not on the tile you compare from.

That single difference does more damage to a price comparison than any gap in the prices themselves. It means you can rank Myntra's nail shelf by cost per millilitre and you cannot rank Nykaa's at all, and it means every sticker-price comparison on this page — including ours — is comparing bottles of unstated and possibly different sizes. We are saying that up front rather than burying it.

Taking the twenty Nykaa polish listings against the nineteen distinct Myntra ones, the median polish costs Rs. 174 on Nykaa and Rs. 149 on Myntra. The floors are within four rupees of each other: Rs. 38 for a Blue Heaven Glossy Gel on Nykaa, Rs. 42 for a Blue Heaven Color Shine 5 ml on Myntra.

The ceilings are where the shelves stop resembling each other. Nykaa's dearest polish in our read was a Rs. 1,121 five-piece gel set, and it also carries O.P.I at Rs. 495 to Rs. 638 a bottle — an imported salon brand Myntra's nail shelf did not return at all. Myntra's top listing was a Rs. 5,114 twelve-piece professional cat-eye gel set, which is a salon product rather than a consumer one and is the reason we quote its median with and without that outlier (Rs. 149 with, Rs. 145 without).

Discount badges run a little deeper on Nykaa — a median of 20 percent against 12 to 15 percent — but that is mostly Nykaa discounting its own house brand, which prints 15 to 40 percent across the Nykaa Cosmetics enamels. The deepest badges anywhere in this read, 58 to 72 percent, sit on Myntra multi-packs from brands with two-figure rating counts, against MRPs of Rs. 199 to Rs. 840.

Matching products across two beauty retailers is harder than it looks, because both stock different shades, different pack sizes and sometimes different variants of the same line. In this read exactly one product matched cleanly.

Elle 18 Nail Pops: Rs. 60 on Nykaa, Rs. 57 on Myntra, both stated against the same Rs. 65 MRP, with badges of 7 percent and 12 percent. Myntra is three rupees cheaper, which is worth exactly what it sounds like — the point of the row is that when the same bottle appears on both shelves, the two prices are within five percent of each other.

The other overlaps are not like-for-like and we are not going to present them as though they were. Blue Heaven appears on both, but Nykaa's Rs. 38 listing is the Glossy Gel against a Rs. 40 MRP while Myntra's Rs. 42 is the 5 ml Color Shine against Rs. 45. Coloressence appears on both, but Nykaa's five-piece Forever kit (Rs. 244) and Myntra's five-piece Naturally Yours set (Rs. 276) are different sets that happen to share a Rs. 325 stated MRP.

Nykaa's Elle 18 Nail Pops tile displays 8,625,631 ratings. Its Faces Canada Splash enamel displays 3,605,272, its own Matte Nail Enamel 2,729,427 and Kay Beauty 1,212,194. Myntra's listing for the same Elle 18 polish displays 190,910.

Eight and a half million reviews on a single nail polish is not a plausible per-listing count for this category in India, and the same polish showing 45 times more ratings on one retailer than the other tells you the two numbers are not measuring the same thing. What Nykaa's figure aggregates — a brand, a range, a parent listing with every shade under it — we do not know, we did not ask, and we are not going to guess in print.

What we can do is tell you not to use it. On this page the rating counts appear beside every listing because both retailers publish them, and they are reproduced, not relied on. If you want evidence on a nail polish, the numbers worth reading here are the small ones: Myntra's 22,081 on MARS, 7,241 on Revlon, 5,467 on Lakme; Nykaa's 20,390 on Insight and 12,311 on its own Creme enamel. Those are the scale a real per-product sample takes.

The two nail sections are not the same shop. Sixteen of the thirty-six listings Nykaa returned across ten nail queries were not polish at all: buffers from Rs. 60, cuticle nippers at Rs. 190, nail glue at Rs. 89, growth and repair serums from Rs. 224 to Rs. 492, a French manicure kit at Rs. 383 and its own press-on sets at Rs. 419. It is a nail-care aisle with polish in it.

Myntra's returned press-on and fake-nail extensions heavily — 24 of its 55 rows — from Rs. 135 for a thirty-piece set upwards, plus a UV curing lamp at Rs. 178 and moulding gel at Rs. 340. It is a nail-art aisle with polish in it.

So the practical answer to which shelf to open depends on what you are buying. For a bottle of polish from a brand you recognise, they are within a few rupees of each other and Myntra tells you the volume. For treatment, tools and removal, Nykaa's shelf is the one with the range. And for either, the coupon page is worth a look before you check out, because a code moves the final price by more than the gap between these two shelves does.