Joe The Homophobe said:
The only thing your good looks will do for you without you doing any work for it is get you is lots of smiles/looks from girls. That alone is plenty and you just have to be brave and approach those that give you the eye contact/smile. But remember a girl fears asking a guy out more than she fears spiders!
That's not necessarily true. If you're a good looking guy who is reserved, you'll get fleeting looks occasionally, but girls will often be too intimidated by your looks to smile or give you direct EC. What they will do is, they will check you out when you're not looking. And from my own personal experience, it is damn near impossible to catch them doing this.
A lot of times girls will see a guy they think is really hot and just assume that he is out of their league or that he has a girlfriend. Girls are completely retarded, I know, but this is just kind of how things work. Like you said, they completely lack self confidence when they're faced with the challenge of attracting or approaching the opposite sex.
I get told I'm a really good looking guy all the time, but I will sometimes go days without getting EC or a smile from a girl. That's just how it is. I'm outgoing, but I can also be kind of a reserved person. Reservedness + good-looking face can be damning to a guy, especially if he is still a little bit of an AFC like I was three or four years ago. When I was about 21, I had to really overcome that and force myself to talk to chics even if I wasn't getting EC or smiles from them.
I imagine the OP has this problem. If you have a really good-looking face, you can't be ****y and you can't be shy. If you're shy, you just have to force yourself out of your comfort zone and approach random girls. Literally eight or nine times out of 10 the girl will be into you the second you open her. And when you talk to her, ****y is something you can't be because you're just going to intimidate the hell out of her and come off as arrogant. When I first got to this site about five years ago, I read about ****y+funny and it did not work for me at all when I tried to apply it. What does work, however, is having a thin layer of ****iness. I've played the "good guy with an edge" role for about four years now, and it's just gradually become part of my personality.
I know a lot of guys on the MM forum don't agree with me on this subject, but these are my personal experiences, so I stand pretty firmly behind them. And I also can tell you it gets worse with age. When I was in high school and an underclassman in college, I would have girls give me looks, smile and even approach me all the time. I was too AFC to ever have a ton of success with them back then, but I think I'm still making my point. Once I got to be an upperclassman in college and into my mid-20s, the girls became a lot more cryptic with their EC and their glances.
Anyway, I've probably already taken this thread too far off-topic, but if anyone wants to talk about this further they can PM me. I still think most of this is pretty good advice for the OP.