The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles

Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: three coats The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles
Top: one coat Poshe
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.

Today I have another lovely spring polish from The Polish Bar. The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles is a white crelly base with a really interesting mix of copper, turquoise, brown and bronze glitters. I am a huge fan of the copper/bronze/gold and turquoise combination, especially in spring and summer make-up. Until now, I didn't own a polish with this particular color mix, so I'm really happy Janice from The Polish Bar sent me Shiny Pebbles! I also like the cute name! It reminds me of being a kid and looking for pretty little rocks in the sand at the beach.

This is three thin coats of Shiny Pebbles. It was super easy to apply. The crelly base builds up nicely in three coats and never looks streaky. The glitter is quite plentiful, no fishing trips required here. The Polish Bar is a great brand for anyone who has been avoiding some indies because the idea of layering them over a base color sounds like too much work. I have tried I think 6 polishes from The Polish Bar thus far and none of them have needed a base color. Nor have they needed any special application methods like dabbing. Just polish and go!

The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles and other The Polish Bar lacquers are available at The Polish Bar on Etsy. I don't see Shiny Pebbles available at the moment, but I'm sure it will be soon. For more information about The Polish Bar, check them out on Facebook.

The Polish Bar Shiny Pebbles was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.

The Polish Bar Spring Showers

Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: three coats The Polish Bar Spring Showers
Top: one coat Poshe
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
This product was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.

All of my favorite polishes this spring have been either mint or periwinkle blue. I guess I'm just going through a phase! My newest periwinkle love is The Polish Bar Spring Showers. Janice, the creator of The Polish Bar polishes, calls this a cornflower blue crelly with silver holo glitter in various sizes and shapes. I can see cornflower here too, but I get a little more hint of purple, so I like to call that periwinkle. Either way, this is such a lovely color for spring and the silver holo glitter looks gorgeous in this blue base.

This is three thin coats of Spring Showers. Spring Showers was easy to apply and the glitter was plentiful. I have had a really great experience with The Polish Bar lacquers I've tried so far. The crelly finish of the base color builds up nicely in two to three coats, but it also allows the glitter to show through. Janice sent me mini bottles to try, and I know some people find minis hard to work with, but these have performed really well.

The Polish Bar Spring Showers is available now at The Polish Bar Etsy store, along with the rest of Janice's spring collection. For more news about The Polish Bar, check them out on Facebook.

The Polish Bar Spring Showers was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.

The Polish Bar Perfect Harmony

Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus

Color: three coats The Polish Bar Perfect Harmony

Top: one coat Poshe

Application: good (out of poor, average, good, excellent)

 The Polish Bar has a new collection coming up for spring 2013!! Janice is awesome and sent me three of her new spring pretties to try. I adored the last three of her polishes I tried, so I was super excited for these. I tried The Polish Bar Perfect Harmony first because it's dusty mint color was calling to me! Perfect Harmony is a lovely mint crelly base with lavender-purple glitter and lavender holo glitter. Yes, I said lavender holo glitter, so you will need this polish. Mint and purple together is the perfect combination for spring, but it's rarely done in polish. Kudos to The Polish Bar for changing that for us! I do apologize for any stray raindrops you might see on my fingers in these pictures. It is rarely ever not precipitating in Connecticut right now.

This is three coats of Perfect Harmony. It was easy to apply and I had no trouble getting the glitter to come out and play. There is some VNL at three coats, but because the base is that squishy kind of base, it didn't bother me. You might be able to achieve this look in two thicker coats. This would layer well over Zoya Neely or Nicole by OPI Alex By the Books too, if you like to preserve your indies and not use too many coats!

So The Polish Bar polishes I have tried are four for four now. I have loved each one! That's pretty awesome. I can't wait to show you the other two spring polishes she sent! The Polish Bar spring collection will be available March 15 at Janice's Etsy store. For more information, check out The Polish Bar on Facebook.

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The Polish Bar Satellite

Base: one coat Zoya Get Even

Color: two coats OPI Houston, We Have a Purple, one coat The Polish Bar Satellite

Top: one coat Poshe

Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)

The last, but not least, lacquer from The Polish Bar I got to try is The Polish Bar Satellite. When I scroll through Janice's Etsy store, Satellite jumps out at me the most! This polish has a far bit going on, so I'm going to borrow Janice's own description of Satellite. She says Satellite has a "tinted pink jelly base with magenta, turquoise, and lime green fine holo hexes, larger silver holo hexes and dark fuschia and silver holo micro glitter". The lightly tinted base is a great mix of glitters and the dark fuchsia micro glitter and holo hexes really show up well. 

I wanted to layer Satellite over OPI Houston, We Have a Purple, because it seemed like a great combo. I think I was right about that! This is two coats of the OPI and one coat of Satellite. Satellite, like the other two The Polish Bar polishes I tried, had a fantastic formula. If you're tired of babying glitter polishes to get them to apply well, try The Polish Bar. I just used regular wiped coats and one coat! If you wanted a more dense glitter look, I'm sure you could achieve that with 2-3 coats.

I am SO glad I had the chance to try three polishes from The Polish Bar. I will definitely be purchasing some more. I already have my eye on Rainbow Jello and Violet Sky! Check out The Polish Bar on Etsy and like The Polish Bar on Facebook for the latest updates.

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I Want to Compose a Love Song for The Polish Bar Love Song

Base: one coat Zoya Get Even

Color: two coats China Glaze Agent Lavender, two coats The Polish Bar Love Song

Top: one coat Poshe

Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent) (my excellent rating is for Love Song, NOT Agent StreakyMcStreakface)

After trying The Polish Bar Eternal Sunshine, I was pretty excited to try out the other two I got. Today I'm sporting The Polish Bar Love Song. If I were Karen from MBB, I'd probably write a cute love song for this post, describing the many glorious attributes of Love Song. Alas, I lack her amazing writing talents. Love Song is a fantastic combination of purple, lilac and lavender hex glitters, purple hearts, and an assortment of rainbow hex glitters in a clear base. The addition of the rainbow glitters is what really makes this unique to me. The polish is mostly shades of purple, but then you get a yellow, blue, red or green hex mixed in there and it looks so amazing!

Love Song applied really nicely. Both of The Polish Bar polishes I have tried so far have a really great formula. Unlike some indie glitters, they are not thick at all, but still manage to have plentiful glitter. This is two coats applied normally (not dabbed). I didn't get any heart glitter this time, but I noticed a ton of hearts on the bottom. I'll let my bottle sit upside down for an hour or so before I wear this one next time! I guess I'm ready for spring already, since I keep picking very springy polishes to wear! This combination is so great for spring!

Love Song would also look fabulous over pink (for Valentine's Day perhaps?), white, and for a wild card pairing, I'd like to try it over pale yellow. Love Song is available at The Polish Bar's Etsy store right now!

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The Polish Bar Eternal Sunshine

Base: one coat CND Stickey

Color: three coats The Polish Bar Eternal Sunshine

Top: one coat Poshe

Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)

Today's post features the new love of my life a gorgeous polish from a new to me indie brand! This soft yellow glittery concoction is The Polish Bar Eternal Sunshine! Janice, the lovely lady behind The Polish Bar, recently asked if I'd like to try some of her polishes, and I immediately focused on Eternal Sunshine. I love pale yellow polish when it's done well, and this baby is done really well! Eternal Sunshine is a creamy pale yellow with small purple square glitters, small purple and fuchsia hex glitters, and teeny navy glitters. JUST GORGEOUS!!

Three coats of Eternal Sunshine is absolutely perfect! The yellow base is sheer enough to let the glitters show through, but quite opaque in three coats. It also was completely streak free! If you wanted more of a yellow look, you could layer this over a yellow base, but I'm really loving it as is. I wish Janice would teach mainstream polish companies how to make a non-streaky pale yellow!

Eternal Sunshine just scream spring to me! I can't wait to wear it on one of those warm March days when you can just tell that spring is on the way. It would also help me get through one of those dim February days when I feel like spring will never come.

If you, like me, have thus far been missing out on the amazing polish created by Janice of The Polish Bar, check out her Etsy store. Eternal Sunshine is in stock right now! To stay up to date with the latest news about The Polish Bar, check out The Polish Bar on Facebook. I have two more of her polishes to review, so stay tuned for those.

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