Looking for a Dupe for Essie's Dive Bar
Essie's Dive Bar, which is this beautifully dark metallic teal, was my favorite color for years! Unfortunately, the bottle's run empty and the closest color I've been able to find is Olive and June's LL - which was also a limited color that appears to be sold out. Everything else I've found that's similar either has more of a color shift to it than Dive Bar did (like Zoya's Olivera), has glitter in it (like Zoya's Remy) instead of being metallic, or is too bright a teal (like Essie's Trophy Wife) when Dive Bar was dark enough to read as almost black from a distance. Help?
u/ahcira has a great post of her wearing it right here on this board. The dry down definitely reads more 'teal' than the 'navy' it shows in the bottle.
Posted Jan 31, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC