The days of painted nails stopped when I became pregnant with my daughter – I used to be one of those different-color-for-every-day-of-the-week ladies. But when you are expecting, you question everything you put on and into your body. Oh, and this constant worry will just grow and grow as your little baby turns into a young lady. As a mother of three, I try my best to live a chemical free life and find ways to clean and take care of my children and my home with natural products (baking soda and vinegar are my best friends). If that is not enough, having a husband with asthma and super sensitivity to scents always forced us to color toenails with conventional nail polishes outside … and yes, I questioned my judgment about those products that I occasionally put on my daughters toe nails but never really researched safe alternatives.

Well, I am happy to announce that guilt free indoor nail coloring has returned to our family, thanks to Piggy Paint. Having such a girlie girl on hand, I learned that you cannot just walk around in your princess heals without painted toenails – that would be totally unfashionable. And while I am still a bit conservative about putting darker colors on fingernails (something that my mother disapproved especially during the school year and I seem to be carrying on this tradition), I am more than happy to give my girl a little sparkle on her toes.

We received our Piggy Paint sample in the shade of Tea Party for Two. Needless to say, I had to hide it for a few days until we had the ‘right timing’ and we could truly have fun trying it out. We followed the instructions and blow-dried each of the two coats we applied. It went really fast – I mean REALLY fast – and the procedure was very fascinating to my daughter. Usually she needs to sit on our front porch and wait for a long time but with Piggy Paint, she was in and out of our indoor spa in less than 8 minutes with two fully dried coats. My darling is picky – I know better to purchase anything without her consent – but she loved most of the colors Piggy Paint came up with which was rather surprising to me. Request for some of them already made it to ‘wish list’.

Here are some quick snips of data about Piggy Paint:

Non-toxic, odorless, eco-friendly, and kid-friendly
Made in USA ( that in itself is a huge brownie point for me)
Safe during pregnancy
Easily removable with Piggy Paint Nail Polish Remover that is gentle on both noses and Planet Earth
Main line of Piggy Paint targets young ladies
Project Earth is for hip tweens
And the adult line is Piggy Paint Refined

Save on your own purchase of Piggy Paint with “momstart10” at checkout

Enter to Win:

25.00 Gift Card to Piggy Paint

To Enter:

Visit Piggy Paint and let me know what colors you like most

Extra Entries:

Tweet or RT this post and include the link to the post

Win a $25 Gift Card for Piggy Paint @MomStart http://bit.ly/jD60zG

Subscribe to MomStart
Comment on any non-giveaway post
List this giveaway on any giveaway site, dig, stumble, like or share on Facebook (or use any of the share options listed below)
Blog About this Giveaway (10 extra entries, linking to the giveaway)
Follow me on twitter tell me your twitter ID
Follow/Like Mom Start on Facebook
Follow me on Google Friend Connect

This giveaway ends June 20th. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Disclosure – A product was provided to me free of charge by the manufacturer or representing PR agency for the writing of this review; however, opinions expressed are my own and are NOT influenced by monetary compensation

About Orshi:

Orshi is a teacher at UCIC where she works daily with children. She shows a great love for children as she has three of her own. She also loves Facebook, gardening and baking. She was born and grew up in Hungary and now lives across the street.

Meet Piggy Paint the natural odorless kid-friendly nail polish. Coming from a stay-at-home mom named Melanie Hurley. Melanie was worried about the chemicals from nail polish being digested and inhaled by her two daughters that love having their nails polished. After watching nail polish that was solvent-based polishes began to bubble and eventually leave big holes in a foam plate she went on a quest.

My quest was on, and Piggy Paint^™ was born. As you may have guessed, our polish is NOT flammable and sits beautifully on the unaffected foam. We hope you enjoy this water-based polish that is specially formulated of natural ingredients. Finally, a kid-friendly polish without the accompanying drawbacks of traditional polishes. It is free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, biphenyl A, ethyl acetate and acetone… and made in the USA!

From my heart to yours, I hope Piggy Paint^™takes the worry out of painting your little one’s nails and puts the fun back into this enjoyable activity you can share with your daughter and other precious girls in your life.

I figured it would be years before I could paint nails with my daughter. I threw all of my polish away because I don’t have time to treat myself to something like that. If she saw me doing it she would want me to do it to. She still puts her fingers and toes in her mouth all the time so I like Melanie didn’t want her to be anywhere near nail polish.

I found Piggy Paint on other blogs and asked if I could do a review of it. They said yes and here we are, with blue nails all around and my daughter asking when can we do it again. It was a special treat for her because the day before she had a really big boo boo. Painting her nails with mommy made her feel special and helped her to not think about the pain she was in. It was nice for me because we got to do it together.

I didn’t even notice that it didn’t smell. It’s a good thing. I think I was halfway done and I thought, wow, it really isn’t smelly. This was the color we received. At first I wasn’t all that excited about it. It’s Tea Party for two. The bottle makes it look like it’s really a dark color for a 2 year old, but once it was on our nails it looked shiny and lighter. I think we’d be happier with Girl’s rule but I can always purchase it later.

Nail Polish Coupon Code:

START15L

expiration July 31, 2009

for 15% off on anything including sale items.
Spend $25 and shipping is FREE! www.piggypaint.com

To Enter: for 20.00 to use on Piggy Paint

Visit Piggy Paint and tell me what colors you like.

Extra Entries:

Follow Piggy Paint on twitter.com/piggypaint
None Bloggers get and extra entry for every e-mail they send out linking to this giveaway cc louise@looksblue.com (be sure to leave a comment for every person you e-mail, for example if you e-mail 10 different people leave 10 different comments)

Subscribe to my blog
Follow me on twitter tell me your twitter ID
Blog about the giveaway include a link to me for five extra entries
Tweet the giveaway (every time you tweet you get an entry) Link to the giveaway please!!!
Add my button to your blog/blog roll
Dig, Stumble, or fav me on Technorati (two entries for each one)
Leave a comment for every entry and the giveaway ends July 20th.

The contest will run until Monday, July 20th 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org.