Product and dosage:
MX343, kind of strong vanilla-ish scent, 2 sprays (chest/neck, arms occasionally hair) approximately every 4 hours throughout the day.
Environment(s):
Waxing appointment, lunch with new friends, walking around town doing errands, the bar
Self effects:
Although I was already in a good mood, I felt even better right after application, increased confidence, felt good, looked good. Throughout the day and evening, I felt much more outgoing than usual, in a cool and confident way.
Effects on others:
Waxing appointment:
Interaction with the girl who does my eyebrows was as usual, light chat, happy mood.
At lunch:
Three other people, two middle aged females, one older male, all Caucasian, all extremely wealthy and highly educated. One of the females I had met several times “I”, the older male “B”, just once, and the other female I had never met “F”.
I had actually instigated this luncheon, in a way, because I have recently left a toxic job environment that had left me very isolated. Finding myself now without a job and a social life, I decided to look into other careers and also choose my friends more carefully. A few weeks previously, I took the initiative of calling one of my late stepmother’s close friends, (“I”) whose personality I liked, and who I knew to be an honest and good person, and shared my situation. A couple of weeks later, she called me to invite me to lunch, as there was someone she wanted me to meet (“F”).
I showed up just 5 minutes late, they were already seated and had their food (talk about quick service!). It was originally supposed to be just me and the other two women, but it happened to be “B”'s birthday, so “I” had invited him to join us as well.
During the lunch, I got to know everyone a bit better as we asked questions about each other and exchanged information about ourselves. I felt confident, intelligent, relaxed and happy. At first the conversation was centered more on me, as “F” (the new friend) had some excellent insights on some things I might be interested and qualified to do for a “new” career. She knew about several things that were very much in demand in the area (grant writing, fundraising), and also specific places that had these needs.
As it was “B”'s birthday, I began to turn the conversation more towards him. As we chatted, I gave each person equal eye contact, as did the other two females. However, I noticed that “B” was making much more eye contact with me than the others. Possible IOI’s? Maybe…
As we left, “F” and I exchanged phone numbers.
Errands around town:
When I returned home from lunch, I ditched my car and walked around town to go to the post office and hardware store (walking always increases the chances of interactions with others).
I felt great, and smiled and/or hi to every person I passed, the smile and/or hi was always returned.
Along the way, I popped in to see my jeweler friend to seek advice on how to best keep my earrings so that I’m not constantly rummaging through the bowl they were in to find each pair. She generously gave me a divided jewelery tray with small sections, perfect for my needs.
At the hardware store, I needed some kind of adhesive to fix a broken sandal. The normally quiet and reticent Japanese woman was more talkative than usual, even laughing at my falling-apart shoe misadventure (thank goodness it waited to break until after the lunch, lol).
At the bar:
As I walked towards home with my bag of jewelery tray and shoe glue, I decided to pass my street and go to the bar, refreshing my MX343 along the way.
At the bar, there was a female bartender (who also a friend of mine), and two males. I sat myself right in between the two males and ordered a beer.
Often I prefer to sit at the corner stool by the wall, and, since my hurtful experience at my late job, have not been quite as outgoing as I once was (I’m working on it though, and I do truly believe that the yoga classes I recently started taking are helping tremendously, why didn’t I think of that before!).
This day, however, I had no problem sitting myself in a more social way, I was happy and smiling. The guy on my left was all into his iPhone, but the guy on my left was very interested in talking to me. Caucasian, maybe in his late 50’s, definite IOI’s (but not rudely or overtly sexually), he bought me a beer, and had difficulty pulling himself away when he had to leave to attend to something that needed to be done before it got dark.
Where I live, people are very friendly and open (for the most part, which is one of the things I love about it here). Often, when people meet or part, they give each other a quick hug or a peck on the cheek. As this fellow prepared to leave, he leaned forward to give me what I thought would be a peck on the cheek, but as I began to turn my head a little for the cheek peck, instead he gave me a quick peck on the lips 
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In the meantime, the iPhone guy on my left had departed, and was replaced by a Caucasian couple, the woman in her late 40’s, the man maybe 10 years older than her. Often, couples in bars kind of stay in their own little circle, and do not always interact as much with the other, non-coupled people, but this was not the case now. The woman was sitting closest to me, and introduced herself and her companion, and I reciprocated. We quickly became fast friends, and she even wanted to come with me to the next yoga class, lol. We exchanged numbers, and made plans for that.
In between all of this (before the guy on my right left), two of the bar owners came in (a married couple), which reminded me that the wife had wanted to buy some tickets I was selling for a fundraiser (which of course I forgot at home, some fundraiser I am, lol). So I quickly ran home to get my tickets, and when I returned to the bar, the bar owner’s wife bought 4, the couple bought 2, and the guy on my right also bought 2. Wow, I couldn’t believe it, in the couple of weeks I had the tickets to sell, I had only sold 2, all of a sudden they were selling like hotcakes, in the space of maybe 15 minutes, lol.
Later on, when I wanted to pay for my tab, the bartender said, don’t worry about it, it’s all taken care of.
Summary:
MX343 definitely made a positive and noticeable difference in my busy day, in many ways. I was noticeably more outgoing and confident, and others were much more comfortable around me, people truly wanted to talk to me and know me. People didn’t just like me, they really liked me.
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