You may fancy yourself as someone who can hold their alcohol, and this may be true, but a date isn’t the place to show off what your learned at the frat house in college.
Do not have more than two drinks all evening. If you’re going out for drinks after dinner, then fine; but if your date ends with dinner, then you should keep it to one drink total. You may know for a fact that there’s no way in hell two drinks is going to make you sloppy, but you can never gauge the tolerance of someone else—not just with alcohol but with drinkers in general. If you want to get silly on too much champagne, save it for further into the relationship. Besides, you really don’t want to deal with a hangover the morning after when you should be recapping what a great time you had and planning your next date.
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Don’t eat too much or too little. If you eat too much during dinner, you may come off looking as though you starved yourself all week for this one meal, and if you eat too little, you may seem uninterested in the date and/or wasteful. A happy medium is always the best route when it comes to dining out. This doesn’t mean you can’t order an appetizer before your entrée, it just means that you should be aware of your presentation—and that goes beyond your physical attributes and carries into the actual dining part of the date.
Go for the heels, ladies. Not only do the majority of men love high heels, but they do wonders for your figure, accentuate the calf muscles and can even make larger feet appear smaller as well.
Studies have shown that although a lot of makeup may seem attractive at first, over time, women who wear too much of it are perceived as being untrustworthy. Similar to your attire, be conservative in your makeup look—go for something that’s slightly more dramatic than you’d wear to the office. You may think sparkle eye shadow will make your blue eyes pop, and perhaps, they will, but you’re going on a date, not to Carnival in Rio.
