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Friend: have you met my friend Gun?
Girl: no I haven't.
Me: shake her hand hi I'm Gun.
Her: hi I'm Sara.
Me: (all the while holding eye contact) nice to meet you Sara. Wouls I be right in guessing you're a hairstylist?
Her: hahaha yes you would be correct.
Me: haha damn I'm good. Where did you go to school to become a hairstylist?
Her: such and such place it was a 2 year course I enjoyed it, but I'm glad its done now.
Me: oh no way that's where my cousin went. Would you by chance know so and so?
By the time you've made it to that point the comfort is built you're byilding decent rapport and the convo is flowing you won't have to think about it anymore.
That's my approach it works for me. I'd also suggest you read Eddie Fews article how to have awesome conversations with women.
Hope that helps good luck!!
No offense, but I don't think these conversation examples are ever good advice. It's purely just an imaginative scenario that only works assuming she's answering the way you're imagining it. Look how different and boringit could go if she's not answering the way you thought or into the convo:
Me: (all the while holding eye contact) nice to meet you Sara. Wouls I be right in guessing you're a hairstylist?
Her: yup.
Me: haha damn I'm good. Where did you go to school to become a hairstylist?
Her: *Says school name*
Me: oh no way that's where my cousin went. Would you by chance know so and so?
Her: No.
It ends up with you just forcing convo with someone who isn't interested.
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I say this because you're asking for help on things to say, so it seems you may not be experienced yet conversationally, so if you try learning what to say by imagining a script like this (especially in the early stages of learning) you'll get completely thrown off if she doesn't answer the way you imagine the script/conversation going in your head, so it's better to just understand guidelines on what to do.
That being said, I suggest you keep it simple in these scenarios. It was an easy open because someone opened for you. Introduce yourself, act friendly, confident, make a comment about the surroundings (when you're at an actual event its always an easy thing to talk about and have a discussion on). Ask some questions about her, then play off those questions by commenting and digging deeper to find out more.
At the same time, be realistic and aware of what's happening. There's a simple fact that in a scenario like this when a girl didn't necessarily show any interest and someone opened her for someone else, that she will have no interest in this 'someone else.' She may be totally uninterested in what you have to say, and no want to partake in the conversation after you try, in which case no big deal, move on.
Hope this helps you out a bit.