Fancy Your Luck Tonight? Expert Reveals The Top 10 Flirting Techniques To Win Over A Crush

Being single can be nerve-wrecking. The small-talk, the dating, the actually working out if someone is even worth the effort of flirting with… For those waking up on Valentine’s Day determined to nab your crush in time for next year, we might be able to help. If you’re finding it hard to work on your ‘technique’, psychosexual therapist Cate Mackenzie might just have the answer – analysing the top flirting styles that are likely to win over your potential partner. Sharing her results with i100, you can thankfully leave your dodgy chat-up lines at the door. Here are the top 10 flirting techniques to bag yourself a date:

1. Maintaining eye contact
2. Paying someone a compliment
3. Teasing someone
4. Looking at someone and then looking away
5. Asking someone for help
6. Complimenting someone only on their appearance
7. Buying them a drink
8. Chatting to someone about the place you are in
9. Text them after meeting them
10. Be tactile with them

While we can’t take full responsibility if the man or woman of your dreams seem capable of spurning your advances, it might give that small talk the kick-start you need to get onto dating territory.