ChatGPT · measured July 2026
The ChatGPT Shelf for At-Home Gel Nails
Olive & June takes half the shelf
Olive & June turns up in 51% of ChatGPT's answers about at-home gel nails — 18 points clear of OPI and 20 clear of Sally Hansen. The brands that built the polish aisle come second in it. Walmart and Ulta together carry two-thirds of the offers.
- Questions asked
- 627
- Brands seen
- 179
- Offers recorded
- 3,371
- Through a feed
- 75%
Who ChatGPT names
Share of shelf is the percentage of answers a brand appeared in. It is not a rank of quality or sales — it is how often the model brought the brand up when someone asked about at-home gel nails.
- 1 Olive & June 51%
- 2 OPI 33%
- 3 Sally Hansen 31%
- 4 Essie 23%
- 5 Gelish 15%
- 6 Modelones 13%
- 7 Le Mini Macaron 13%
- 8 KISS 13%
Where the offers come from
Every product ChatGPT showed came from somewhere. Brand-direct means the offer pointed at the brand's own store rather than a retailer.
- Walmart 41% · 1,044 offers
- Ulta 25% · 632 offers
- Target 10% · 257 offers
- Brand-direct 10% · 245 offers
- CVS 7% · 183 offers
- Sally Beauty 3% · 86 offers
How the shelf gets built
75% of the offers here arrived through a product feed rather than a page crawl, and 245 of them came direct from a brand.
| Shelf position | Offers | Through a feed | Brand named |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top of shelf | 1,739 | 75% | 67% |
| Positions 2–3 | 1,381 | 76% | 69% |
| Position 4 and below | 251 | 65% | 60% |
Who writes this shelf
Before ChatGPT names a at-home gel nails brand, it reads. These are the sources it cited most when building this shelf.
- reddit.com 733 citations
- allure.com 544 citations
- goodhousekeeping.com 398 citations
- whowhatwear.com 292 citations
- glamour.com 277 citations
- buildergelnails.com 224 citations
How we measured this
- We asked ChatGPT 627 shopping questions about at-home gel nails in July 2026. The questions never named a brand, so nothing here was prompted into the answer.
- Questions were repeated. ChatGPT does not answer the same way twice, so a single ask tells you nothing — share of shelf is the pattern across all 627 of them.
- We recorded every brand mentioned and every product offer shown, 3,371 offers across 179 brands.
- This is one engine, one country, one point in time. It is a snapshot of a shelf that moves.
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