My daughter Lily turned five a few months ago. Five is not much when I compare it to my age, but it is definitely a milestone for my daughter and I guess me too. My little girl is growing up and she is becoming more and more a young lady. I have to adjust to her becoming a little more independent than she has been in the past and she is just prissier than I am. That is alright and I’m learning how to support her girlie ways.

She has been asking, for a while, to have her fingernails painted. It has been a question in the multitude of questions I’m expecting to hear, but I’m still waiting for her to ask to have her ears pierced. Her pediatrician, when she was born, refused to do it until she was at the age of consent (hers of course) and her father agreed. So, I have been “patiently” waiting with no hinting from me and she still has not asked.

The fingernail painting has been pressing on her mind lately and I have been pushing it off hoping she would forget because I’m learning about many of the toxic hazards in personal care products. I don’t even use a hair moisturizer on her hair, even though she needs it, because of the levels of various chemicals known to cause health issues. I’m still trying to find something a little safer to use on her hair. Any suggestions are appreciated.

I had a college roommate who was also very prissy, had been a heavy user of makeup since her before teen years and had the natural long nails to show it, which she kept well manicured and polished. Each night, I was “fortunate” to witness the reveal (after the makeup and fingernail polish were removed) which showed the severe discoloration of her face and yellowed fingernails to match. I can only imagine the condition of both so many years later now.

I know it will be difficult to shield her from everything dangerous, but I figured I would at least give her a running start and not introduce the beauty element and all of the chemicals so soon. Flying pigs? In swoops “Wonder Pig” otherwise known as Piggy Paint™. This is an answer to my daughter’s persistence and a comfort to me.

About Piggy Paints
Piggy Paint is formulated of natural ingredients, water-based, hypoallergenic, and non-flammable unlike most commercial polishes which are solvent-based (a.k.a. toxic chemical-based). The variety of colors will delight your children and go with pretty much any outfit in the closet. Moms may also find a few colors that will be appropriate to be worn during the day at the office or on the playground and carry them into the evening for a night of dining out. There are a couple of retro colors that could cause sudden and periodic flashbacks to the 80’s, which I’m kinda’ fond of.

I caught her sniffin’! There are no smelly or dangerous fumes so sniff away all day long my darlin’. If the smell of acetone turns you on, then sorry. Piggy Paint™ also has a natural, acetone-free polish remover that comes in handy when it’s time to try a new color. We are painting fingernails more often because Lily likes the pampering. The paint also wears well through light tea-party play to outside dirt romping fun.

I like mom-made products. Most of them were created because of an inconvenience a mom experienced or because a mom was searching for a safer way to do something. Melanie Hurley created Piggy Paint™ because “she decided that any flammable substance that could eat through foam was unacceptable for her children’s fingernails.” That made sense to me, so Lily chose her fingernail polish colors and we placed an order for her birthday present.

What you are seeing now is a redo. Lily, in her excitement, painted her nails in I believe it was three minutes flat. She was so excited to use the polish. I sent her to wash her hands and she thought she was supposed to also paint her nails. The next thing I knew, she was waving her hands in the air for me to see her beautiful paint job. I was disappointed because I missed the mommy/daughter moment of painting her nails first, but I gave way to her excitement and complimented her on her paint job (even though it looked like a three minute paint job). I’m sure I’ll have many more opportunities to do “firsts” with her.

River was just as excited for her and jumped in to paint her nails. He learned the careful art of blotting the brush before applying the polish. At least I got the honor of painting her other hand. Don’t you think it’s only fair that she do mine?

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