What proportion of random women will give you eye contact during the day?
12-10-2015, 03:13 AM
I get eye contact a lot. I can't put a number on it, and it wouldn't be fair because of my current location, but it happens most anywhere.
This is not because I'm some super great-looking guy. I'm not bad, but I think it has a lot more to do with how I enter and engage with a room. My energy. My aura. I walk into a place and unless I'm low energy or low mood at that moment (happens to me like anyone), I'm switched on and ALIVE.
My chin is up and my eyes are open. Strong posture. Warm smile on the face, generally. Speak loud and clear. I engage with the first person who looks at me. I talk to people, men or women. I flirt. I look directly at people that come in my vicinity, whether they make eye contact with me or not. I either start joking and teasing or somehow assert myself in another way. Greet and shake hands with any guys I know, even staff. It's not entirely uncommon for me to exchange raised eyebrows and a smile even with a girl busy singing on the stage.
It's hard not to notice when someone like that walks in.
And when you're switched on like that, you get a lot of eye contact from women - not always attraction-based but often enough. Some of the responses I get in those moments are pretty powerful.
Let me give an example. One time I was standing in this bar in Northern California, and I was really in my switched on space, and I'd just engaged these two okay girls at the bar and was bantering with them and they were eating it up. I'd been on a roll and two of my buddies were sitting on the couch somewhere behind me just grinning at the display.
Suddenly this sexily-dressed, slightly older woman walks down the bar behind them, swinging her hips and she was just oozing sexuality. I mean, you couldn't help but notice her either.
She seemed to catch on to my vibe immediately and the way I was commanding attention. I saw her looking and started following her approach with my eyes, and then I just stopped mid-sentence and stopped talking to the other girls completely. No fucks given. Turned my head to the side to meet her eyes. Just held it like that as she walked by me - completely locked in.
Then as she got near, the eye contact was intense at this point and I was making it so obvious in front of everyone already, so I sort of held up my hands in this little hug invitation with a smirk on my face, and she leans in and gives me this deep and enthusiastic, prolonged hug, pressing her titties against my chest.
We exchanged a little "how are you doing tonight," and maybe a "you're hot" - I can't really remember. And then as she walked on, I turned, and started talking again like nothing happened, and the two girls were just staring at me and exchanging glances, mouths agape, and one says, "Wait, do you know her?!"
"No," I said, laughing a little.
"That was a-a-a-awesome," she says.
I found out a little later the woman was engaged and her fiance was not far coming in the door behind her either...
I've got pretty expressive eyes and I know how to use them, and I think that helps, but at the time, I was not looking very good - probably the worst shape of my life. Unshaven. Smelling like booze and cigars. Wearing a fucking fedora (okay, that part doesn't really matter haha).
To elaborate on this effect, for a while I expiremented with just catching women's eyes as they walked by, reaching out and grabbing their hand, and saying, "I do hugs." Just as my opener. haha
And note how I worded that - I was "catching" women's eyes. Not waiting for them to find mine. You have to be quick about it because you don't want to be that guy just walking in and leering at all the females and not looking away, but if women aren't noticing you, you force your way into their attention by noticing them.
Often in these moments you get random women opening you up, in one way or another, if it's a bar environment.
What's my point?
I don't think just being a good-looking guy will necessarily get this kind of reaction. Sure, I've watched women get drooly-eyed over the Adonis model type, but if he doesn't have that energy and that aura and that inviting, expressive nature, he's not going to draw them in like that and get a breathless impromptu hug. Women may even be intimidated to actually meet his eyes for a moment if he doesn't radiate personality.
And let's forget about the Adonis guy and just think about a guy who is a couple points more attractive to me. As an extreme example, if he's just another good-looking guy standing there holding his beer with his hand in his pocket and listening to other people talk with his dull voice and dull personality and slumped shoulders, is this going to happen to him?
No. Of course not. I admit I've had my share of nights being that guy too and people could have given two shits about me.
But when everything about you engages the room, and when you're in that switched on mood and reactive enough to capitalize on whatever attention flows your way and invite it in and blow more life into it, well, that's another story. You don't even have to be drawing attention to yourself, either; the body language and attitude is often enough to just increase instances of mere eye contact.
So, I think to get noticed enough for lots of eye contact, you better be a noticeable person, and that depends on a lot more than your aesthetics. Come alive and so do the people around you.
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