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Kid-Friendly Polish, Christmas Nails Idea, plus a Piggy Paint Prize Pack Giveaway!

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My girls love when I paint their nails, so the other night I gave them a festive Christmas touch with non-toxic, odorless Piggy Paint!
Aren’t they cute?  My daughter was pretty excited about them and couldn’t wait to show them off to her friends and teacher at school.
I admit, I don’t paint my sweet girls’ nails as often as I should, but when I do, we go all out!  While I painted, we had a blast talking about this wonderful season and our family’s holiday activity plans in the coming weeks.
I just love colorful nail polish for little girls.  My girls are fans of pink, can you tell? 🙂
So many times when we paint, I have to open the door to the room and start the fan to circulate air because of the heavy fumes and odors, but not this time!  I picked up some kid-friendly, non-toxic, odorless Piggy Paint at Walmart and we kept the door shut without being bothered by the funky smell, because there wasn’t one.
I whipped up a fun washi tape-decorated jar to hold our new treasures, layered some cotton balls on the bottom, followed by our cute (and I might add, eco-friendly) Piggy Paints, a file and remover.  We were set!
My two-year-old couldn’t keep her hands off the fun polishes, so I painted her nails first to appease her anticipation.

She gets a kick out of getting her nails painted, but she’s only two, and that means lots of wiggles, so mommy had to work fast!  It was a good thing the polish dried really quickly, or we may have been in trouble.  🙂  I started off with a simple coat of pink.

And then I let her choose a color from the stash to make polka dots.

Blue was a perfect compliment! After I finished, she gave me a huge hug of gratitude for the pretty paint job and then ran off to play.  So sweet. 🙂
Next, my older daughter sat down for a paint job.  We started with a coat of green on every other finger.
Then I painted a gorgeous vivid pink color on the in-between fingers for an alternating effect.
Next, I grabbed a toothpick, snipped off the sharp end, dipped the point in pink polish, and “drew” on a candy cane shape.  I did this to a nail on her other hand as well.
Then, after it had dried, I drew a few blue stripes on with the sharp end of a toothpick that I’d dipped in the polish.  Easy peasy!
Next, I made a present shape by drawing the outline of a square with purple polish and a toothpick, then filling it in.

I let it dry completely before adding the bow on top and ribbon stripes on the sides.

Next, I drew on a Christmas tree using the same method-drawing the outline with a toothpick, then filling it in with little dabs of polish on the toothpick.
I made a few more Christmas designs the same way and we were done!  We had such a fun girl’s night in together painting nails and chatting.  I’m no expert nail painter, but we absolutely adored the final results and now our nails are looking their best for upcoming holiday photos and parties!
Right now through December 23rd, you can receive 15% off your online purchase at Piggy Paint with code “piggypaint”.  These would make great gifts and stocking stuffers!
And guess what?  Piggy Paint’s going to give one of you lucky readers a prize pack (as shown below) valued at $57!

The Color Me Happy Gift Set includes the following Piggy Paint colors:

Sometimes Sweet (bright red)
Jazz It Up (bright pink shimmer)
Dragon Tears (light green pearl)
Girls Rule! (bright, shimmery purple)
Forever Fancy (shimmery pink)
Mac-n-Cheese Please (pumpkin orange)
Ice Cream Dream (dark green shimmer)
Tea Party for Two (bright blue shimmer).

 

How exciting is this?  Do you have or know a little girl who would love some Piggy Paints?  If so, be sure to get in on this one!
**This giveaway has now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Catherine Williams!Please leave a comment below, telling me what design(s) you would paint and the colors you would use first if you won!  Giveaway will run until midnight MST on December 16th.  Open to US residents only.

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  1. I think polka dots would be the best I could manage, but I love the designs you did on your girls! I'm sure my girls would want me to use the bright pink shimmer one first.

  2. What a fun gift! I would choose red and white colors first and make my nails look like candy canes with the stripes going diagonally. Fun!

  3. My niece and I like pinks. She would want every nail to be a different color though and probably would want a different design on each nail too so we would try them all.

  6. I'd like to use the red and pink to make little hearts on my 3 and 4 year old fingers sand toes. They love painting their nails. They were so excited when that was one of the activities on their Advent calendar this week.

  9. My little one is in love with dots and smiley faces, so we'd probably attempt them as a design. I think she'd love the Jazz It Up color
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