Today in Australia was the race that stops a nation doing any work during the afternoon. I'm talking about the Melbourne Cup horse race, in which we Aussies this year were anticipated to spend $140 million in bets. And 20 of those dollars were mine!
Last night I sat down with my ipad and a google search of "Melbourne Cup Jockey Silks" and I chose my four favourite designs and colours to turn into some nail art.
- Thumb - Fiorente- Black with a purple sash
- Index - Red Cadeaux - Blue and Red diamonds
- Middle- Mount Athos - Grey with a large beige star and smaller stars on the sleeves.
- Ring - Hawskspur - White with black stars, purple sleeves with white stars
- Pinky - Dunaden - Bright yellow with blue stars
The designs were a combo of stamping, free hand and tape. The index finger with the red and blue is a little messy on the edges as I didn't have a plain diamond check stamping plate and had to use an argyle style stamp - and then carefully remove the fine lines between each diamond. The rest of the designs were mostly stars that I stamped on.
When I got to work today I showed my nails to my team and explained how I had picked the horses purely based on what the jockey was wearing. One of the team was heading to the TAB, so I gave him $20 and asked him to place a boxed trifecta bet on all five horses I had painted on my nails. There were certainly a few in the group that thought I was a little crazy placing my bet based on my nail art, but I figured it was no worse than a mystery bet, and I was happy to lose my $20 (like I had in previous years)
See, boxed trifecta.
And now the unbelieveable part of the story. I won! My $20 bet only got me a 33% share of the Trifecta prize, but I still walked away with more than $1100. Here is my handful of pineapples.
Whoo hoo. Did any other Aussie pick a winner today?
Congrats!!!!! That's an amazing win! and I love the skittles!
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible story - the sort of way I'd choose my horses too - but never with such an outstanding result both in nail art and winnings. Congratulations - headline for the day - "Fashion on the fingertips turn into a mighty cash win!!" LOL
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeletesooo cute :)
ReplyDeleteOMG your story is so funny! I am happy you won, girl! You deserve it, with such a nail art! :D
ReplyDeleteNail art + ultimate result = awesome. That's fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome, both the nails and the winnings based on nail art!! What a great story, now you can buy .... more polish!!!!
ReplyDelete1,100 makes a lot of polish!! :D Congratulations!! Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Cathy! a perfect result for perfect nails! No no buy November for you!
ReplyDeleteHow cool! I love stories that combine our love (obsession) for polish and real life (well, that is our lives other than painting our nails)! And this one has a bonus of $1100! Nail Art Brings Good Fortune - you proved it. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat win!
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