Rainbow Honey Tenda

**PR sample provided by company representative**

I was sent the full Rainbow Honey Summer Fab Collection set of three mini bottles for review.  I have pictures of the pretty packaging, pictures of the polish bottles, and a review of the coral polish, Schrammi, here. 

Tenda (which I think means "store" in Portuguese, if I remember my college Portuguese classes correctly) is a bright Kelly green polish.  I don't normally buy green polishes . . . but when I do . . . No, really, I don't normally buy a lot of green polishes, but when I do, I end up surprised at how much I love them.  I didn't buy this polish, it was a sample sent for review, but as I'll go into more later, I had been desperately wanting a similar shade in a Revlon polish for many months.  Tenda is another in a long line of green polishes to surprise me.  When I saw it in the bottle I thought, yeah, well, it's green, Kermit, grass, whatever, nice, yeah.  Then I put it on.  It's so lively and pretty, and the golden shimmer doesn't take away from the overall green color but adds a really nice detail when you get really up close to the polish.  This was really not work-appropriate, but I wore it to work *and* to court anyway.  I got more compliments on this mani than I have gotten on any other mani that I can remember.  It really got noticed at work and by family and out and about running errands.

I had no application issues.  I think I used two coats, but I can't remember for sure.  I know I used Seche Vite top coat as I wanted the mani super shiny, and Tenda wasn't shiny enough for me on its own.  I think I got minor shrinkage from the Seche Vite, but I took the pictures after *many* days of wear, so a lot of what you see is tip wear.  Cleanup and removal was easy with no staining.  I loved this polish so much that I wore it for well over a week (almost two full weeks), and I didn't have any chips.

 

We had so much rain I had to wait days for some sun so I could take pictures, and even then it was in between showers so that I had to discard a bunch of photos because they had shadows in them from drops of water on the glass through which I was taking photos.  I wasn't able to fully capture the golden shimmer, but here are some photos taken in as much sunlight as we had here in South Florida for a while:

 

 

 

 

And now for the story of the green polish I had coveted for so long:  Revlon's "Posh."  I would pick it up in the store and put it back down over and over and over again.  I loved it so, but I couldn't seem to justify buying it.  But, if you look at the pictures below, you can see that Tenda is a very close shade *and* it has gold shimmer, so I'm very happy and satisfied.   One of the pictures below is blurry but I included it anyway because it shows both Posh and Tenda with more light so that you can see more of the (slight) difference between the shades.  In the sharper photo, the colors are a little darker than in real life.  Anything that looks like a rough cuticle in the sharper photo is not actually any such thing.  I had rushed out of the house to go to Target, and I had put on a coat of clear polish because I had been wearing the polish for well over a week at that time. I didn't have time to do proper cleanup, though, so what you see is just pieces of clear polish sticking to some edges of my cuticles.  I assure you that cuticle oil keeps my cuticles nice and photo-ready under normal circumstances.



NOTE:  The polish on my nails is not the same as the polish in the bottle.
Bottle:  Revlon Posh
Nails:  Rainbow Honey Tenda



NOTE:  The polish on my nails is not the same as the polish in the bottle.
Bottle:  Revlon Posh
Nails:  Rainbow Honey Tenda



 

The Rainbow Honey Summer Fab Collection is available at Fab.com for $25 for three full-size 15 ml bottles.  These polishes are fun in a bottle, and I highly recommend buying this set!

**PR sample provided by company representative**

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