after launching it in her hometown of St. It was founder Arissa Haze’s first time hosting the experience in L.A. Serpas was one of 12 singles - five men and seven women - to participate in the Dating Blind event, which took place on a recent Saturday afternoon at a spacious training school called Beyond the Combs Academy in Leimert Park.
“My issue with men sometimes is that they see this first,” she said as she traced her hands along her body, “but they don’t want to engage in deeper conversations.” She’d dressed for the occasion wearing a butterfly-print dress, pink heels, natural-looking makeup and bouncy curls. “It made me feel a bit safer because they weren’t looking at me and I wasn’t looking at them,” Serpas said. They’d both been blindfolded ahead of time - he’d been guided to Serpas’ table by a staffer - as part of a unique experience called Dating Blind.
When her date finally sat down in front of her, she couldn’t see him.