This is copied from a comment I made to someone, perhaps some of you will find it useful:

Maintaining eye contact is essential, because that's how sexual tension starts. You have to risk making it awkward/weird in order to get her into you. If she doesn't like you, she'll break eye contact and try to leave, but if she likes you she'll blush, react angrily or fearfully because you are pushing her, etc. Like a girl at the store did when I was talking to her, she even dropped the receipt before passing it to me, but I'm still a somewhat beginner myself and have never escalated towards asking a random girl for her number, but I'm pretty close. (edit: I got a chick's number at the bar today, so that's a win for me). I always seem to duck out before trying to set something up with her, I guess to me that seems too real right now, but I think I'm really close to that point.

Think of it like a sexual tension battle, a woman will never sleep with a man who loses the sexual tension battle. Most men, when they feel any kind of tension with a girl, will immediately laugh, joke, put on a big act because the situation is too intense and scary, but if you can face down the beast that is talking with a woman, you can start to become a more sexually assertive man, which women find very hot. Women are attracted almost entirely to behavior, there's a quote "it's not that you are ordinary, it's that you are a pussy".

When you give off the vibe that you are approaching her sexually (not like in a wild-eyed, scary way, but in a chill, relaxed way) then women generally get really turned on. They might react in a wide variety of ways to a guy who is seriously open sexually. This one girl at work like whipped her head around when I walked by, like she was possessed by the devil. It's not about me, really, it's just about behavior that I have started to implement and emulate in order to have more success with women. And it works. (edit: one girl at the bar basically stared me down in anger, the waitress got flustered, another waitress said "you guys are so funny!", a girl at a kiosk started blurting out about her boyfriend...looking women in the eyes is pretty crazy how much it works).

Seriously, the big secret is that women are just as sexual as men are, and just as non-monogamous (most men want to fuck every woman out there, but suppress that because they feel they must limit themselves to their girlfriend/wife, or because they think men are creepy if they express themselves). Women also get really attracted to the really sexual guy who never committed, take a look at women's erotica, it's all the brash, aggressive guy who sweeps her off her feet. Definitely not the meek dude who can't look her in the eye and works up the courage to ask her out.

There's a lot of EXTREMELY scary truths that start to become apparent when you start to get more into game. The biggest of which, I've found, is that women by and large are more attracted to the non-committal guy that flirts with women than their husbands/boyfriends, and that sex naturally becomes stale with just one person for almost everyone. Monogamy in general is a social construct that needs to operate because otherwise the world would fall into utter chaos, not to mention that almost every religion tries to restrict both male and female sexual behavior, basically making life into a big suffering test of how much people can limit their own behavior and feel bad about themselves. Also, the fact that "women in charge" almost all are submissive sexually and like being dominated, so even if she is "in charge" she still likes pleasing a man and being fucked (edit: yes, this even goes for women like Hillary Clinton and other female CEOS, all women basically enjoy being submissive). So feminism can say whatever it wants, but women almost unanimously like sexually assertive men, even though they will say its good to be polite and gentle and all that stuff, even though it simply just does not turn women on. (edit: not to mention that ALL of the advice about being really gentle and sensitive with women is simply a turn-off).

I'm rambling, because I'm processing a lot of this shit, and it's pretty intense for me, but I believe I see through the illusion now. It's really a lot to handle, seeing how almost every guy out there is sexually unsatisfied, unless they are aware of game, and that I'm aware of that, and that there's no turning back. That my sexuality is not "I want to do X to you", but "I'm giving you the opportunity for me to do X to you, which you want anyway". All that shit in porn is stuff women want to do anyway. (edit: I can't see myself ever getting married now...I really wanted to with my ex-girlfriend, but now that I have this power in a sense, how can I go back to just being with one woman? I guess if I do, I'll probably get an open relationship or a mistress or something).

So to get back to your situation, talking to women is a great start and an awesome first step, but you have to keep it sexual from the get-go, or you will give the "potential boyfriend" or "potential friend" vibe rather than the sexual one. And if you can keep in mind women's non-monogamous sexual behavior and love of submitting sexually, then it's easy to keep in mind when talking to a girl anyway. (edit: And women are extremely attracted to escalation in general, taking the interaction from eye contact to touch and onward all the way is what gets women off, they basically hate men who are incapable of following through. And I kind of understand it at this point, they want a man of action that isn't afraid to actually change the world and manipulate the things around him, instead of a sheltered boy who is afraid to touch things in case someone gets mad at him).

Regardless, I'm right on the cusp of a breakthrough, I already have women flipping their hair by me and blushing when I talk to them, now I just need to pull the trigger, jump into the pool, get her number, and take her back to my place. Which is going to happen soon, I'm sure.

(edit: One of the big things that has been weighing on my mind is how sad it is for most men...how the vast majority seem incapable of taking action and getting what they want. How they live these closed off, scared little lives...and religion in general seems very depressing as well. People basically hating themselves for their natural urges, keeping themselves basically in a chastity belt. I think to the Buddhist monks who constantly have "bad thoughts" which arise, and they "deal with them" by sitting with them, when they could just follow through with most of them and a lot of women would get pleasure from that. It's kind of like both men and women are on both sides of the aisle, sexually unsatisfied, and it's only the guys who are unafraid to cross that aisle that give women what they actually want)

I also think about how mind-blowing it is that I'm never going to REALLY struggle with women ever again. That, if I want, I can always have women in my life...that I'll never be sexually unsatisfied again. It's really, really humbling because I spent a long time in a relationship with sporadic sex and basically on incel forums hating women. I think that seduction does actually separate you from other men, and they sense that and a lot of them can get REALLY angry at you for that and constantly test you for it.

This is a lot of rambling thoughts, but I've become very confident in this perspective, and can't see any way back to my old way of seeing the world, especially that women are monogamous by nature or hate sex or something.