To do this and succeed, you have to be either: Extremely gorgeous, or have more money than sense, or your dad will have to own a brewery/football club.
Now, who am I to say that you're not drop dead gorgeous, but I feel if you were, then you wouldn't be doing this experiment. An hint that you are 'disinterested or mean' on the first date will result in you not getting a second date!
I think it's a matter of what your mates think is mean, and how blokes think.
I see girls talking to their menfolk like they do their girlfriends, and believe me, men really aren't interested in your new acrylic nails (not unless they're rakng down his back during the throes of ecstacy) or your new hair do - (unless you look like you've just beamed down from planet weirdo) men like their girls to look nice, smell nice and let them watch/go to the footy - or out with their mates from time to time (as you can the same with yours) without the 20 questions and the cross-examination after....here endeth the first lesson!