Don't have much else to add to the great advice above, except maybe:
One very important thing...and maybe this only works for me...or is totally self-evident (it wasn't to me)...though it takes time and practice...is smiling, making long and holding that first eye-contact, and then smiling even more. You have to look like you're interested, without looking like a desperate maniac. It's a fine line.
Practice it everywhere...the bookstore, the supermarket, Watson's, wherever you don't give a shit first. Anywhere you see a nice cute girl, if you're interacting with her....smile, make eye contact and hold that eye contact, then smile wider. Girls know you're checking them out...and if in that split-second where they know you're assessing her face, you make your smile even wider...well...then they know you're interested.
Its very hard to put into words, and for the record this was not a skill I was particularly good at (nor particularly interested in honing) when younger. But, you get older, wiser, and--frankly--stop giving a shit about getting turned down...then and only then...the confidence you convey in that moment of first eye-contact becomes everything...
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