Rainbow Honey Tenda

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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!

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Rainbow Honey Bitty Love Bot

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In a previous post here, I wrote about being surprised to receive the entire Robot Collection to review, and I reviewed the groovy matte glitter top coat Yoshimi worn over Femme Bot. I also reviewed Femme Bot by itself here, and I reviewed Skyward Bot by itself here, and I reviewed Lucky Bot by itself here, and I reviewed Dusty Bot by itself here.  This is my last review of the collection.  All the colors in the collection are really pretty.  They are spring-like, but just a little edgy, so not the routine overdone pastel cream-finish spring colors.  To me they seem like chrome polishes, and I never got around to buying any of the drugstore (Essie) chrome polishes, and these colors are prettier in my opinion, too, so I am very happy because I finally have chrome-like polishes.  The polishes are made with aluminum flakes, which, according to Rainbow Honey's website, makes "the metallic lacquers of the Robot Collection simultaneously sparkly, reflective and smooth."  The finish on Bitty Love Bot, a pale greenish blue metallic polish, is definitely both reflective like a foil and also sparkly, especially in sunlight, and the finish is definitely smooth.

The formula on Femme Bot, the pink metallic and the first of the "Robots" that I tried, had been excellent, and that polish had been a one-coater.  I was expecting Skyward Bot, the second "Robot" I tried, to have the same formula and had hoped it would also be a one-coater, but I had problems with application.  Luckily (pun intended), Lucky Bot was a one-coater like Femme Bot, and Dusty Bot was also a one-coater and very pretty with a very obvious chrome-like effect, and the final polish in the collection, Bitty Love Bot, was also a one-coater.  I still think Femme Bot had the best formula of the bunch, but only Skyward Bot gave me any trouble.  Bitty Love Bot wore well for a week (although I did get a minor chip or two) and removal was easy.

Here are some photos, taken after a few days of wear, all in sunlight:

Indirect Sunlight

The Rainbow Honey Robot Collection is available at Rainbow Honey's website and at worldwide retailers.  Rainbow Honey is offering free shipping on orders over $50 on their website as well as giving you a free special polish with orders over $50 on their website.  July's special polish is Summer Blossom! Rainbow Honey describes it as "a festival of orange, yellow and white blossoms in a sea of iridescent and holographic glitters.  You can see photos of Summer Blossom on Rainbow Honey's website here and on Rainbow Honey's Facebook page.

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Rainbow Honey Lucky Bot

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In a previous post here, I wrote about being surprised to receive the entire Robot Collection to review, and I reviewed the groovy matte glitter top coat Yoshimi worn over Femme Bot. I also reviewed Femme Bot by itself here, and I reviewed Skyward Bot by itself here.  All the colors in the collection are really pretty.  They are spring-like, but just a little edgy, so not the routine overdone pastel cream-finish spring colors.  To me they seem like chrome polishes, and I never got around to buying any of the drugstore (Essie) chrome polishes, and these colors are prettier in my opinion, too, so I am very happy because I finally have chrome-like polishes.  The polishes are made with aluminum flakes, which, according to Rainbow Honey's website, makes "the metallic lacquers of the Robot Collection simultaneously sparkly, reflective and smooth."  The finish on Lucky Bot, a green metallic polish, is definitely both reflective like a foil and also sparkly, especially in sunlight, and the finish is definitely smooth.

The formula on Femme Bot, the pink metallic and the first of the "Robots" that I tried, had been excellent, and that polish had been a one-coater.  I was expecting Skyward Bot, the second "Robot" I tried, to have the same formula and had hoped it would also be a one-coater, but I had problems with application.  Luckily (pun intended), Lucky Bot was a one-coater like Femme Bot.  I still think Femme Bot had the best formula of the bunch, but only Skyward Bot gave me any trouble.  Lucky Bot wore well for a week (although I did get a minor chip or two), didn't stain at all, and removal was easy.  The color on Lucky Bot was very pretty.  It was a very pale green most of the time, but at some angles it looked like the color we associate with glow-in-the-dark green.

Here are some photos, taken after a few days of wear, all in sunlight, with the last photo in indirect sunlight:

This is the best I could do at capturing the color shift to the shade that reminds me of glow-in-the-dark green.

The Rainbow Honey Robot Collection is available at Rainbow Honey's website and at worldwide retailers.  Rainbow Honey is offering free shipping on orders over $50 on their website as well as giving you a free special polish with orders over $50 on their website.  July's special polish is Summer Blossom! Rainbow Honey describes it as "a festival of orange, yellow and white blossoms in a sea of iridescent and holographic glitters.  You can see photos of Summer Blossom on Rainbow Honey's website here and on Rainbow Honey's Facebook page and below are some photos linked directly from Rainbow Honey's website:

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Girly Bits Shift Happens

After wearing China Glaze's Stone Cold, a matte silver-infused charcoal polish, for a couple of days, I added Girly Bits Shift Happens, a multi-chromatic top coat.  I figured it's not often that I wear black nail polish, and with the base already done, a manicure with Shift Happens could not be easier.  I reviewed China Glaze Stone Cold here.

This top coat was very easy to apply.  At just one coat, it looked like fiery red sparks.  At two coats, the full multichromatic red-orange, gold, and green colors showed up.  It made me really happy to look at it . . . again and again.  It dried quickly, and the second coat didn't mess the first one up, even though for the first time, I didn't wait in between coats like I usually do with manicures.  The polish has a good brush, thin and round.  And, basically there was no cleanup needed.  It wasn't shiny enough for me, though, so I added Seche Vite.

This top coat is one of many dupes for Clarins 230 a/k/a "Unicorn Pee."  I don't have the Clarins, so I can't compare them, but I'm very, very happy with my "dupe."  I only spend crazy amounts of money on polish when there are no dupes out there, like with OPI Black Spotted.  I just paid $39 (plus $2 shipping) for that on eBay.

Here are lots and lots and lots of pictures, because I took many more than I usually do and even narrowing the choices a lot still left a lot of photos:

Indoors

Indoors

Sunlight

Sunlight
It can get really green at some angles!

Sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight

Indirect Sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight

Indoors
It looks like it has little embers in this picture.

Indoors

Indoors, office lighting.

Indoors, flash.
Blurry, but looked neat.

Indoors, office lighting.

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Last Weekend's Shopping

Last weekend I bought some of the new skull-bottle Wicked brand nail polish sold by Hot Topic.  They had a large part of the collection out on display on the store in my local mall, and the store clerk said that they were getting more selection in the future.  The entire collection is available online at Hot Topic's website.

I bought Deceit, a flakie polish similar to China Glaze's Luxe and Lush, except where Luxe and Lush has a clear base, Deceit has a very pretty light pink base with a little purple to the pink shade.  It's very dainty and girlie and delicate on its own; I don't know what it would look like layered over another polish.  The flakies are like shards of mylar, and the polish base is thick.  Sometimes a flakie will want to stick out, and you need to either push it flat or remove it or use cuticle nippers to nip off the part that is sticking out.

I also bought Royally Screwed which looks more dense and opaque in the bottle, but it's more of a top coat with royal blue small glitter and larger hex glitter.

Then I went to Claire's at the mall.  I bought Claire's Color Club Little Dipper, a beautiful orange shimmery polish with golden orange shimmer.  I also bought Claire's Candy Shop, a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop, a pink base with glitter in many sizes and colors.

And, you could get one Revlon polish of your choice for 99-cents at CVS last Saturday (after Extra Care Bucks and a $1 off manufacturer's coupon), so I got another bottle of quick dry top coat.

Most exciting of all, Sally Beauty Supply was having a large clearance sale, and I had a coupon for 15% off my entire purchase.  I didn't get any of the clearance polish, but I did find a bottle of Finger Paints Special Effects!  I found (and purchased, of course) Flecked!  I will offer this polish to my Finger Paints Special Effects giveaway winner if they don't already own it.  Then they can have 3 different ones of these hard to find flakie polishes.  Flecked has mostly green flakies and some blue flakies.  I also bought another set of nail wheels at Sally's.  It's what I intended to buy when I went there.  I can always use more nail wheels.

Here are some pictures of the bottles and some swatches of the polishes:

From left to right:
Finger Paints Special Effects Flecked, $4.24 + tax
Claire's Color Club Little Dipper, $5.09 + tax
Claire's Candy Shop, $3.91 + tax
Wicked Deceit, $5 + tax
Wicked Royally Screwed, $5 + tax
Revlon Quick-Dry Top Coat, $.99 + tax

Blurry picture of the package of nail wheels.  They're very inexpensive.  I paid  $4.58 + tax.

ONE COAT OF EACH:
#3 is Claire's Color Club Little Dipper
#4 is Claire's Candy Shop
#5 is Wicked Deceit
#6 is Wicked Royally Screwed

TWO COATS OF EACH, #3 through #6

THREE COATS OF EACH #3 through #5
TWO COATS OF #6

On the left #16 is Spoiled Vitamin C.
To the right is Claire's Color Club Little Dipper.
They are similar but I like the Color Club formula better, and it's more vibrant.

On the left, #3 is Revlon Orange Fizz.
To the right is Claire's Color Club Little Dipper.
They are slightly different shades with a very similar glass fleck or shimmer effect.
Also, the Revlon is more sheer and is scented.

On the top wheel, #17 is China Glaze Luxe and Lush which has the most similar flakies to Deceit on the bottom right.
On the bottom left at #18 is Luxe and Lush over black polish.
On the top wheel, #18 is Finger Paints Motley, and #16 is Finger Paints Twisted.
On the top wheel, #15 is Essie Shine of the Times.

Royally Screwed (#6 on the left) has similar sizes of glitter to Revlon Radiant (#10 on the right).

The glitter in Royally Screwed (#6 on the left) are most similar in color to  Sinful Colors Midnight Blue.

So hard to capture the sparkle in Deceit's flakies!

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