The photo makes the band look like the glow-in-the-dark color. It is more of a light, yellow-y bright lime green. The band is not translucent, but solid. Also, hard to see in photo, but the actual watch part is part shiny steel, part satin steel, and part light mint green metal (which does not exactly match the band in color, but looks OK together). I like the look.  Too soon to say re the comments on discoloring, but I have several rubbery band type watches, and they all discolor after a bit. It is more noticeable on the light color bands.