This post might be long but this is part of the game I've got some experience in.
Depends, cold approach usually is all about presentation. Especially if she didn't give you eye contact or a smile. If You randomly approach a woman and you aren't attractive to her, then it's sad.
You could be a neurosurgeon but if she doesn't find you sexually/ physically attractive your "mouth peice" will definitely have to come into play. With a "mouth piece" you got about a 2 minute time frame to catch her attention. Either make her laugh, or engage in a convo for ex. talk about a recipe (if you're In a grocery store). Let it be natural.
I buy my groceries in bulk at sams club and I eat healthy. I notice This (Dominican) woman with a Very nice body. She's average height, hair to her shoulders, very nice lips. Beatiful brown skin with a nice accent. I see in her cart she has a lot of times similar to mine, and we both are going for this salad mix. She notices my cart and said something along the lines of "you eat healthy, you shop better than some mommas!" So of course We start to talking and I tell her about almond milk, plant based diet and all this bull but my MAIN goal was to see if she wanted to see if I could cook better than some mommas. Just to see if she would be willing to come to my house. Eventually I got her number invited her to my house and we enjoyed a decent evening together.
Another example,
I'm walking to my car after a long day of work and in the distance I see this curly brown hair bouncing in the wind lmaooo, I'm on the phone with a friend and I tell him I have to call him back. I literally fox trot over to this woman and she was absolutely gorgeous. She had peanut bettter skin, brown curly hair and deep brown eyes.

. I catch up to her and the first thing that came out of my mouth was I love your hair. (I know wack but I don't think about these things I just go with whatever) we get to talking about life, she's in art school, she skateboards and is originally from Virginia or something like that. All the while I'm just thinking about how I can close on this before I get to my car. We walk another block and my Infiniti is looking nice after a wash. I had a fresh hair cut I was feeling like the man haha, so I'm leaning on my car while she's talking and I eventually tell her to put my number in her phone because our convo was too good to be held only once.
Bruh, she said, you're handsome and all but you're too short.



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Lmaoo, if I saw her again I would still shoot my shot, it is what it is. My whole point of the story is you cannot internalize other people's rationalities. You cannot think about things that are out of your control. Thinking about IF a woman is interested doesn't make sense because you can think about that until the end of time. Shoot your shot, you win you lose. You could get rejected 100 times and 101 can be your soulmate..
If you're an aesthetic dude, your "mouth piece" can be sub par but be funny
If you're not aesthetic, be in shape, smell good and have immaculate teeth.
If you're not aesthetic or in shape, have money
If you're not aesthetic/ not in shape/ don't have money, be confident send a prayer and shoot your shot you have nothing to lose.
I'm 5'7, dress pretty well, nice teeth and in shape. I've had a good amount success with cold approaching and I've been rejected plenty. If I can do it ALL of you bruhs can!