Halloween is my favorite holiday for so many reasons. And one of the greatest reasons is that all hot women use it as an excuse to dress slutty.

Every girl is a slutty cat, a slutty witch, or a slutty cheerleader.

And I gotta say that I just love that.

So when the girls are putting out extra sexy vibes, with a little bit of strategy on our parts as men, we can all get laid this holiday season. Let me start with two classic mistakes (that I’ve made).

The Braveheart

When I was in college, I dressed up as William Wallace my freshman year. The costume was genius. I looked amazing. I had a blue kilt, matching Scottish gear, and all the blue facepaint.

And let me tell you that shit got all over my white shirt. I don’t know how clowns wear that crap without it getting everywhere. I know there is some technique out there, but I still don’t know how to do it.

Girls spend forever getting ready when they go out and there are about a million reasons why painting your face will keep them from touching you. Just one sneaky kiss and everyone will know you hooked up for starters. There’s no chance for any dark corner action.

So don’t paint your face. Nobody wants to bang a clown.

Too Cute

The cuter your costume the stronger your game has to be.  If you are a total legend like me, you can get away with wearing a full body Tigger costume.  If you are an even bigger legend like my buddy Ollie, you will borrow my Tigger costume and then bang a girl while you are both inside of it.

Notice the badass Tigger beard

You should always learn away from cute and towards a sexy, bad boy image this Holiday season.  If you dress up as a chipmunk, or the boy from Where The Wild Things Are, then you have to have a strong enough personality to cover up the assumption that you are a weak kid.

Too Lame

There is nothing worse than when you are wearing a costume and nobody gets it.  Don’t be the guy dressed as a “normal dude.”  And don’t be the guy dressed as something obscure that people have to ask like fifty questions to figure out that they still don’t get it.

Here is a sweet picture of me as Wolverine for Halloween in 2002 I believe.  This was before all the X-men movies.  Therefore nobody got it.  But this IS definitive proof that I was rocking a Wolverine look before I ever heard of Hypnotica.

And last but not least don’t be the one guy not wearing a costume.  That just makes you a prick.

Don’t Carry Something

If you carry it you will regret it.  And probably lose it.   This means nunchucks, swords, scepters and anything else you gotta carry in your hand.  Somewhere during the night you will probably lose it.

So there is no percentage in carrying that crap around.  It will only cause you problems.  If you have a drink in one hand and a sword in the other, what hands are you going to touch her boobs with?  I love swords but I love touching boobs more.

How to Do It Right

Take a Sexy Archetype

Pick a character that already has sexy attached to it – pirate, motorcycle badboy etc.  I don’t want to tell you exactly what costume to get but you want to get one that is about 10% beyond your personality to push yourself.  You want it to be something simple that she’ll get.

Can you even tell what my costume is? The pirate got WAY more action that night.

If your costume is good, then women will approach you to comment on it.

You can also just dress like a sexy celebrity.  Think Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon in any of their movies.  But again you gotta make it super clear who you are dressed up as, or you’ll run into problems.

Only wear a Half Mask

You can wear a mask on Halloween.  It adds a sense of mystery or the forbidden.  I have a half gasmask that only covers my nose and mouth.  Gotten laid wearing it.  And I love wearing my Venetian mask.

This is the very mask the night I slept with the Mouse.  I couldn’t find a picture of me wearing it, but this is a hot girl borrowing it because she loved it so much.  Please forgive the picture, I was hammered when I took it, but this chick is seriously sexy.

If you wear a full mask there is too much mystery.  There could be anything under there.  If you wear a half mask, her mind will fill in the gaps and make your more handsome.  If she can only really see your eyes and mouth, then you are in great shape.  Everyone has nice eyes.

Costume = Approach Invitation

If a girl is wearing a costume she wants you to walk up to her.  That is a FACT.  If she didn’t want people to mention her costume, she wouldn’t be wearing one.  Remember that everyone is insecure.  So you can walk up and say, “great costume” to every single woman you see next weekend.

This is why it’s crucial that you wear a costume.  If you compliment her costume and you’re not wearing one, it’s hard for her to say something back.  Plus you look like a dick.  Plus you are ruining my favorite holiday.

Wear Your Costume a Day Early and a Day Late

There is nothing better than being the only guy wearing a costume.  Every single girl will approach you.  As long as you have the confidence to back it up, you will get a bunch of free attention.  It’s like peacocking but way less obvious!

When anyone points out that you’re the only one wearing a costume just say that you love Halloween.  A strong frame turns being the odd man out into a MAJOR advantage.

When I Wear Wings I Get Laid

This one doesn’t come with a guarantee but everytime I wear Angel Wings I get laid.  As I am writing this I realize that my wings are missing.  I wonder if I left them in Europe.  I had a pair that I gave my oneitis when I was in Japan.  In fact that picture of me with the pirate is from that Halloween.  She left them behind and I kept them.

Turns out they were lucky after all!

There is something about a man wearing wings that just turns women on.  Then again I am turned on by a woman wearing wings.  The first time I wore wings was to make myself more confident like one week after learning that pickup existed – and I got laid.  It’s one of my first blog posts actually.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any solid pictures of me in those wings.  Sorry for that.

Leave a Comment Ya Bastards!

I know how many of you guys are reading these articles.  Now that it’s hundreds every day I expect some comment love.  So tell me what costume you’re gonna wear and next week tell me that ya got laid!

There are 5 reasons why every pickup artist should go to a bar alone to meet women. Hunting in packs is a classic mistake and it’s time for you to learn to avoid such a lame mistake. There is a reason that we all think snipers are so cool. They hunt alone. It’s all or nothing and it’s on there shoulders. They have no one to blame if they miss that crucial shot.

If you go out to a bar alone you will improve your life for five amazing reasons.

1. You are forced to go out of your shell. When you are in a group, you can have a nice average time without talking to another stranger. You just spend the whole night talking to your friends. When you are in a bar by yourself, you either talk to strangers or you stand their quiet and alone and very bored.

2. People are more likely to approach you. Think about when you want to walk up to a woman. It’s so much easier when she is standing alone than when she is with 10 of her closest friends. Other people feel the same way. When you are standing alone you are far less intimidating.

3. Going out in a pack of guys actually makes you look weak. Guys go out in groups not because they are confident, but because they are not brave enough to be alone. They only understand how other men think. We see strength in numbers. Women see strength in walking alone.

4. Going out alone makes you look confident and will help you to grow your confidence. One of the most beautiful women I ever met was on a night I was in a club alone. She told me that she was so impressed that I was so brave and that she would never have the confidence to go out alone. It actually made me more attractive to her.

5. When you go out in a group you are very likely to just stand there in a circle talking to your friends while not taking action. Your friends actually become an impediment to your success.

So give it a try. Take a few steps out of your shell and see how much people start to respect you and you start to meet the women of your dreams. This is one of the key steps in learning how to get a girlfriend fast.

So I realize that there are so many changes I want to make to this blog.  The main thing is that I want it to be the main focus of my life again.  I went from writing hundreds of posts a year to a couple dozen.  And that’s no good.  Also I seem to only be writing theory and educational posts.  I don’t want to give you guys the impression that my life has slowed down one bit.  I just made this decision that I should stop writing field reports now that I’m pretty well known as a dating coach.  But man I don’t wanna lose an image I spent years developing as a bad boy.

So let me tell you about last Saturday.  I bring up this night not because it’s exceptional but because it was like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.  I’m often paranoid when I’m around other pickup artists or really good looking guys.  I know it’s something that most other people don’t notice because I have a really highly developed ability for hiding my fears and acting anyways.  It’s what makes me such a force of nature when it comes to pickup.

So I’m about to go out with this new local dude Low0r.  We have talked online and he’s emailed me for advice in the past.  We just haven’t hung out before.  The guy is like a huge my name is earl with no mustache.  And he’s hilarious.  About 20 minutes before we are about to go out together he lets me know that we are going out with 2 other dudes.  So these guys roll into my place at like 8 or something which is wicked early in this country town unfortunately.  I break out the beers and we chill for a few minutes.  One of the friends starts telling me how it’s an honor to meet me and how pickup artists and coaches like me totally changed his life.

Low0r is totally worried that I’ll be embarassed.  That shows exactly how much he doesnt’ know me.  I am getting off on this 100%.  Who doesn’t want to be told that they are awesome.  So when you meet me and the truth is that just about anyone who emails me eventually gets to because I love traveling and partying so much, make sure to say it’s an honor to meet me or something.

It was like when a highlander cuts off another highlander’s head and there is all this lightening and then the guy has like twice as much power.

My game simply exploded.

We went to at least 7 bars.  And each bar I would open a set and be KILLING IT.  And of course the 4th guy who I haven’t mentioned because he was so negative would complain and demand that we change bars.  Normally I hate that.  But I was unstoppable.  Set.  Set.  Set.

I did a couple of things that are especially amazing.  I took a picture of every girl as I got her phone number.  I NEVER remember to do that.  So I woke up Sunday with faces to go with the numbers.  It really helped me to decide which girl I was more attracted to and helped motivate me to call.  Usually I suck about texting a girl because I don’t remember what she looks like.  And I hate the facebook exchange because let’s just say my page isn’t flattering to girls who are looking for boyfriends.  I am a whore when it comes to club pictures with girls.  I don’t care.

So we go from bar to bar to bar.  And this dude is pouring vodka down my throat and who am I to say no?  So I am blasted.

I remember meeting a bunch of girls having a birthday party.  I dropped one of my BEST openers “Are you guys really friendly or really mean, because I don’t want to talk to mean girls” – That’s right.  I’m giving you solid gold in the middle of a story.  It’s like a reward for actually reading this post.  And I’ll tell you right now that that opener works like 100% of the time for me, so it should work at least 90% of the time for you.  Nobody actually admits to being mean.  Most dictators self-justify their actions.

So I bought a round of shots.  I never buy drinks for girls, but I do honor the birthday party.  If you have seen my birthday party pics from 2009 you will understand just how seriously I take this event.

So then we are a bar later.  And I meet this Brazilian girl.  Her sweater matches her hat and that’s all I have to say.  I get her number and take a photo.

And here is where we have a blank space.  Now I spoke to the other dudes this weekend and apparently I was killing it at at least 2-3 more bars.

Then we end up at the late night bar where I am supposed to meet the Giraffe and her roommate who hates me.  Both of these girls are WAY bigger than me.  They are former major athletes and were super successful.  I found out from Low0r that I was killing it with 2 stunning German girls with the Giraffe shows up and I just walked away.  That is CLASSIC me.  I always forget girls and stuff.  It’s why I need a handler.  I can close any set but I forget and get distracted.  I think I have the pickup artist version of ADD.

So everyone goes home and stuff.  I don’t really notice.  I end up with my two giants in another late night dance club.  We are downing drinks but I sure don’t remember.

I made out with both girls and eventually we end up in a big pile in my bed.  Where I pull the classic move of being too drunk to fuck and passing out.

The 5 Types of Pick Up Lines.

5. The Direct Approach

This is the most powerful but also the most risky of these pick up lines.  It’s the equivalent of going all-in when you’re playing poker.  The important thing with this opener is that you need to have zero hesitation.  The moment you feel that kick in your chest you have to act.  You see a beautiful woman and you act on your emotions.  That’s the type of man who uses this approach.  You walk up to her and say the following:

“You’re so beautiful, if I didn’t come and say something I would be kicking myself all day.”

It seems simple but that’s the point.  This is the sniper of conversation starters.  You can modify the sentence based on your personality, but the structure is important.  She is beautiful.  You had to act.  You acted because that’s the kind of person you are.  NOT because you care about her reaction.   This distinction is very powerful.

4.  The Extremely Indirect Approach

This is the opposite approach to the direct approach.  With this pua opener you say something so far from a pickup line, that she will say something to you.  This is the most low reward of all possible conversation starters.  Most likely she will answer your question and simply walk away.  You transmit no information to her.  She has no idea that you might be interested or interesting.  Yet this is one of the most common approaches I see guys do in club after club.  This involves such lines as :

“What time does this club close?”  “Do you know any other cool bars around here?”  “Where is the bathroom?”  “What time is it?”

You have to say something AMAZING for your second sentence to make up for the weakness of this conversation starter.  It’s only a pickup line in the loosest sense of the word.  You might as well try something a little bit stronger like the next one.

3.  The Indirect Approach

This approach is very popular among pickup artists and guys new to the dating scene.  When used properly it is extremely popular.  It is the bread and butter of mystery method and many other similar styles of pickup.  The idea here is to say something that it’s so intriguing that it takes her attention away from the fact that your a stranger and instead makes her and her friends focus on the question you ask.  So the test for if a question is a good indirect opener is if girls pay more attention to that then the fact that you are a stranger.

Here are some examples of indirect openers (pick up lines) that I have used successfully more than 1,000 times each.

“Who lies more, cats or dogs?’

“If you thought your boyfriend was cheating, would you check his email?”

“If you thought your boyfriend was cheating, would you check his phone?”

The last two are very similar and the truth is that they are all you will need.  I have taught those two lines to hundreds of guys in different countries and they ALWAYS work.  They are super interesting and women love to talk about relationships.  If you only memorize one pickup line, choose one of these two.  You will spark some amazing conversations instantly.

2. The Situational Approach

Now we are talking about something extremely powerful, simply because it cannot be memorized.  The power of this approach is that you are reacting to your environment.  You have to be quick on your feet to think of something good to say.  I will give you some powerful examples here so that you can see how they work.  This is a more advanced type of pua opener, but if you can learn to think this way you will really change your life.

“Wow, this bar is really crowded”

“I love how everyone here looks exactly the same.”

If a girl sneezes – “Do you have bird flu?”

This type of opener is complex because it has to fit the situation.  The idea is to make it super casual and not serious.  Here you are just getting the first sentence out of the way and you are off to the races.  Each situation will be different so you want to build up to this approach.

1.  The Neutral Opener

This type of pua opener is powerful AND easy.  Which makes me think you are going to love it.  These are situational openers that you can pretty much use all the time. The don’t transmit interest of disinterest, which means you have a nice neutral footing to start from.  90% of women will react positively to these and you get to find out how she treats strangers within 5 seconds of talking to her.

The easiest place to start your conversations is at the bar.  I always line up behind women at the bar.  What’s the point in standing behind a bunch of guys?  You’re just wasting your time.  Once your behind some women, you want to say something that you would just as easily say to a man.

“Are you guys in line?”

“Are you guys ordering together?”

“I love how they have 2 bartenders for 500 thirsty people.”

These are all really simple statements but they will get you well on your way to a nice conversation.

Final Thoughts on Pick Up Lines

They don’t have to be hard or complex.  Starting a conversation is only a big deal if you make it a big deal.  What you really want to do is just relax and let your pua openers flow.  As soon as that happens, conversations will come easily and often.  As you know starting the conversation is just the beginning.

I hope you enjoyed these powerful pick up lines.  And guys please let me know what you thought of this post by leaving a comment or question below.  I really do love your feedback and it helps me get better at what I do – Teaching you Pick Up Lines.

The Best Pickup Artists in the World

There are tons of "gurus" out there espousing to be pickup artists, puas, don juans, masters of seduction etc.  I am fortunate enough to have met a TON of these guys.  I have met and seen in field BOTH of this years #1 pickup artists.  Actually there are three "official" top ten pickup artist lists out there and I have been in the club talking to ladies with all three of these guys.

Fortunately all three of them are actually really good with women. 

But there are a TON of shysters out there.  If you guys were reading my posts about a year ago when I was in Vegas, I met a TON of fake coaches.  These guys were taking thousands of dollars from unsuspecting students and felt nothing bad about it.  To me this is both shocking and unacceptable.  Everytime I meet a guy who teaches dating, pickup or whatever fancy name they want to give it, I say the same thing – show me.

I have to see it in action to believe it.  I have been on the receiving end of this dozens of times.  I have had students give me all sorts of challenges.  Usually, it's something I have never done before.  But if I'm on the clock, then I always do it.  I think it's important to practice what you preach. 

But what do you do if you can't see these guys in person?

Right now only a small number of guys even use their real images, let alone video.  I try to post majority real pictures.  Of course protecting the privacy of the women I meet is important, so I do try to balance that out.  It's important for you guys to see that I'm a real person.  The more you believe me, the more you will trust me and try what I tell you. 

But let's say you are reading an ebook but one of the hundreds of dating ebook authors, and I hope it's by one of the dozens that actually knows what he's talking about.  How can you know what will work and what doesn't?

Be a Scientist

You should see learning dating as both an art and a science.  I really think of it as a craft.  Because there is a lot to it.  Just like making pottery has the facts – the temperatures at which clay dries and hardens, how long before a kiln overheats an object etc, it also has an art to it – making the piece both beautiful and functional.  Being a pickup artist is about knowing the odds and also about reacting to the situation. 

The best way to learn what works and what doens't is to test, test and test! 

Don't just blindly follow whichever guru you currently support.  Whether it's your favorite big name pickup artist or just your favorite poster on a forum, you need to try it for yourself.

The reason I got so good at pickup and teaching it so fast, is that I will try ANYTHING.  I am always looking for new techniques.  And the experimenting never stops.  Even the best guys in the world are constantly changing and adapting their game.  Everyone is always looking to improve themselves.

If you have seen a lot of my pictures, you may have noticed that lately I rock a beard constantly.  It all started almost 2 years ago when my roomate in London, Ghost, told me I look better with a beard.  I hadn't shaved in 3 days, so I just kept not shaving.  Today is the last day of November.  So I shaved my beard off.  It felt so weird.  But I'm curious to see how people react differently.

I have gamed with a dozen haircuts, from 50s rocker to my current diagonal mohawk.  For my next look I am going to model the lead singer of Tokio Hotel.  I love that huge badass do.  And I will see how the women react to it.

It's like Karate

When I was in high school I studied Tae Kwon Do.  I learned everything there is to know about kicking.  The first time I lived in Japan I studied karate.  I realized I knew nothing about punching.  At my school they broke the punch down into dozens of tiny steps.  All of them are important and can totally change how hard you hit.

You should definitely start off with just one style of pickup.  Don't read fifty ebooks.  It's too much information.  But once you have your base style down, then you can start trying and testing new things.

My game right now is about 90% different from what it was a year ago.  I have changed where I live, how old I am, my career, my hairstyle etc.  As I change my game should change.

You are not me.  I am one of a kind.  So are you.  You are older or younger, shorter or taller, skinnier or fatter.  So your game should reflect your individuality.  Try lots of things and see what happens.  As long as you treat it as an experiment you can separate it from your emotions.  It's ok to completely change it up and it's also ok to go back to something that worked better.

Don't be a Keyboard Jockey

99% of guys in pickup never succeed.  They spend their lives on forums and reading what other guys have tried.  They then regurgitate this same information to new guys who don't know any better. 

When I started in pickup I tried a LOT of things I read on free forums.  I quickly discovered that you get what you pay for.  I tried experiment after experiment and I couldn't replicate their results.  The first thing field testing taught me to do was spend very little time on forums.  You learn it all out in the field.

Who reads a book about swimming and then jumps off a boat into the ocean.  Knowing information in your head is not the same as knowing it works in your heart.

So please take everything with a grain of salt.  Even the stuff I teach. Because just because it works for me doesn't mean it works for you.  And if it does work for you, then that's even better.

So I am in Atlanta after the worst roadtrip of all time.  It normally takes 3-4 hours to get here from Nashville, but a pit opened in the middle of the free way.  The damn thing was 25 feet deep.  I never even got to see it, but traffic was backed up to a complete stop.  Everyone just turned their cars off for hours.  Took me nearly 8 hours and 2 redbulls to get here.

Last night I just grabbed a couple of beers and chilled with TenMagnet.  Hard to believe we haven’t chilled in nearly two years.  Not since SuperConference in LA back in 2008.  We have stayed in touch through some forums, facebook etc. 

We have just been swapping bootcamp stories and shooting the shit about all the instructors we know in common.  It’s cool to be hanging out with someone I really respect.  He’s got a bootcamp this weekend and I’m just hanging out and helping out.  I really look forward to tearing it up in field tonight. 

A local lair guy is letting me crash in an extra bedroom in his apartment all weekend as well.  Which is totally badass.  So far this city has been really welcoming.  I almost             stopped off to see this girl yesterday on my way to Atlanta.  She would only guarantee that we could hang out.  And not anything more.  So I didn’t bother.  Let’s be honest I’m just too damn lazy.

So now I’m sitting in some conference room waiting for the action to begin.  There is no internet in this hotel for some damn reason, so I’m just going to be writing articles and blog posts all day I reckon.  C’est la vie.

It's funny how we get into pickup because we want more women in our lives and as soon as that starts to happen we realize that it wasn't the problem, just a symptom.

It's like that amazing line from Brad Pitt in Fight Club.  "We're a generation of men raised by women.  I'm wondering if another women is really the answer we need."  Like all of my brothers – my fellow wings, coaches, instructors and acolytes I have discovered that I want more.  It's why my life has exploded in so many directions.

Once guys start having more girls or cuter girls or sometimes it's just ANY girls in their lives, they start to look for more projects.  The path of self-discovery seems to have no endpoint.  Soon it becomes all about inner game.  Developing an iron sense of self.  Then you want financial independence.  After that you start to seek locational independence.

I am moving on that path myself.  I have expanded my business ventures in a dozen directions in the last few months.  Like every other guy I know in pickup, internet marketing is one of those directions.  Hopefully my new project will work out and I'll be in a really good financial position within a few months. 

But this post isn't about me, it's about you.

As you move along this journey and track your progress with your blog, who you are and what you want will change.  I used to just want to get married so bad.  I thought it would solve all of my problems.  Now I see the world in a completely different way.  I keep changing careers.  I am 29 and I am still finding myself and exploring every passion.

To be honest, there is nothing I love more than teaching guys what's possible.  Pickup is just the medium for the education.  It's a means to an end. 

So start trying the things you have always wanted to do or the things you've always been afraid to do.  You might just find yourself.

The life of a pickup artist is complex.  I have been thinking a lot lately about why people want to deny what they are.  I work with a lot of other guys in the seduction industry who say they aren’t pickup artists.  As far as I can tell, these tend to be the more dishonest guys in the community.  I feel like if you teach routine-based pickup as a profession, you are probably a pickup artist.  So why lie about it?

It seems like it’s just become trendy to say you are not a pickup artist lately.  It’s some kind of anti-The Game backlash.  Like the term pickup artist is becoming more mainstream and well-known so people now want to be called dating coaches.  Like it’s anything different.  I am proud of what I am.  I hated my life as a loser.  So I admit it.  I am a pickup artist.  I love going out to bars and meeting and seducing beautiful women.

If being surrounded by stunning and amazing women is a crime, then please slap the cuffs on me.  You can read my entire journey on this pua blog and you can see how much my life has changed.  There are a few major changes coming in the near future that are gonna blow your minds.  I am going to expand the number of people I am working with as well as move to paradise, so stay tuned.

And remember, never be ashamed of what you are.

so i an walking out my good to meet a friend on my way to the gym and who do i see on my corner but the teacher from last night. She was walking away and for a second i hesitated but then i thought f that. I am not afraid of anything. She has a good lead so i jog and just pretend i am out for a jog. She was pretty rude and lame to be honest and i just don’t have time for that. Her bad behavior really lowered her value and demonstrated her lack of social calibration. I ejected because i just don’t have time for rude people in any part of my life. Also her looks and daytime dress sense left a lot to be desired. Its strange how prettier girls just act nicer. Anyways it was funny to run into her outside my door. Just shows how small this town is. On another note, my other pulls are progressing along.