How to make sure kiss without bad breath with alcohol?

I am going on my first date after a year (1 year without s. and last time I kissed was July 2016)

I am excited about this date (I am a girl btw and I am 26). fully rebooted and in March I will celebrate 1 year PMO free

I will grab a drink with this guy tomorrow night and I am glad/afraid it has been a long time since i have been with a guy in any intimate way. I don't even remember how to kiss. i used to kiss very good but without practice i have no idea anymore

what worries more and wanna make sure it goes smoothly and good is the kissing part. I am not a teenager anymore so I imagine he will try to kiss me at some point during the date

with my last ex we kissed for months until i started having bad breath so then i didn't even try to kiss my last guy or to talk about that coz i felt bad about it but we kept having s. and he always liked the s. we had. but the fact he stopped kissing me but kept having s with me, put me down, my self-confidence, my self-esteem


So I am afraid to kiss again. I don't want to get a reaction where the guy is not too happy and feel bad breath from me. that would be humiliating

I am a beer person (don't drink dark beers though) but probably beer gives the wost smell as alcoholic drink before a kiss. He will take me to an Irish pub

i don't think my breath is bad now but i would like some advice especially from guys and what they like in this

some guys i went on dates in the past always had chewing gums after pub and offered me one. would it improve the smell if i don't have a too good breath? i was thinking i should grab a cocktail like a mojito light to reduce at max chances to have a bad breath. I wanna be at my best and confident as i usually am

can i check myself if i have not too good breath?

i look 13 with these stupid questions but i wanna feel good at this date and don't wanna get a disgusted face from the guy

 

first of all thank you hearing women's opinions is nice about this too

@DemonSemen i would like your opinion given you are a guy about this stuff below i wrote about my ex's behaviour about the bad breath:

basically me and my last guy kissed for months. thinking that he used to like the way i kissed him (biting softly his bottom lip).. then i got bad breath (i was eating junk food in that period) and his behaviour made feel bad about it. at the beginning he was playing, leaning closer to kiss me and i would like refuse to kiss him coz i felt he did to make fun of me

so i didn't try to kiss him anymore only hugs, caress and contact during s. and sleep, holding hands (we kept doing everything except kisses). i gave up and didn't care about eating more healthy coz i thought what is the point in the sense he won't kiss me and i didn't have the courage to actually talk about that with him. it was very embarassing for me

then he was when out in a pub he would chew a gum and then ask me if i wanted one, i said yes but he didn't try to kiss me. i dunno maybe he meant it a reminder "you have bad breath" and that's it. i took it bad. he did this more than once, the chewing gum stuff but didn't lean to kiss me even the last time we went on a date a year ago. i don't understand why he did it

the fact i had bad breath didn't make him lose interest in having s. with me. he should have, i guess instead he was always fully satisfied in s. with me. technically for males and females that should be a huge turn off

technically a kiss is not due on the 1st date but it is one of the main reasons i wanna re-start dating plus i am not a very patient person when it comes to picking up and guys i want. i want to feel i am on a date with a guy i like for dating material and it doesn't look like hanging out with a sibling or a friend. i like feeling that kind of s. tension otherwise it is boring for me. i like to go straight to the point. i won't have s. though. i am just saying i want to feel excited about seeing him again and i wanna test the waters from the beginning

but i dunno in this case. i should adjust to dating again. honestly i feel a bit scared like my first date ever. i hope i have a good date and the guy is good to me and treats me good

 

Thanks for your advice my last ex made me feel self-conscious about that and it put me down honestly. yeah I know i am getting paranoid and need to calm down. i just want to make it good for me not worse for my self-esteem for the kiss stuff. feeling the stress i had before my first date

i decided tomorrow in the morning i will go a buy a mouthwash (will use once before going to the gym ) and another time before going to my date. throughout the day i will test my breath it is not bad really now but just wanna have a good breath %. then i will decide if bringing in my bag chewing gums or no

when i work out i always feel so good and confident about myself. perfect for pre-date

we'll just drink alcohol at the pub, I am sure. i will eat before going there to avoid having empty stomach and feeling tipsy/drunk that it is something i wanna avoid lol. i will see the drinks menu but won't opt for a beer, even red wine or a mojito, def a light drink. vodka soda is not my cup of tea

 

thank you for your support I do appreciate it

 

btw i went on this 1st date and i went ok. i liked talking with the guy. he asked me if i wanted to hang out again and i said yes so let's see
about my breath, i didn't feel confident enough for the breath stuff even though the guy said i was very confident

I bought on Thursday Listerine zero and a tongue scraper to see if it fixed it. especially since i have been taking this Listerine zero my lips are very dry. I now put some lip balm. my mouth is incredibly dry. before taking listerine it was not dry. this listerine makes me feel i haven't drunk water in 6 years. i think i will stop taking it. i thought it would have fixed the issue quickly. so obviously i didn't want to kiss him even though the guy wanted to kiss me during the date. i want to make sure i am 100% ok with that. i want to fix it asap max a week

this morning i started brushing my teeth with baking soda. the taste of baking soda was strong but it looks like i am going ok i guess. now i prepared a peppermint tea i saw a video where a lady recommended it to have a fresh breath. so i brushed my teeth with baking soda and then used normal toothpaste and i keep drinking a lot of water and avoid junk food at all cost also eating basil leaves

I want to be able to make out if i want to lol and be completely confident about that. it is important. i finished my peppermint tea and i feel better much more than mouthwash with chemical stuff in there

 

What do you mean? This is the only issue to fix. I know I may sound obsessed but would you like to kiss a woman when you start dating her that shows bad breath?

My last guy stopped kissing me for 5 months until he left me (he kept having 's. With me though). Even when we met again after the breakup 4 months later he didn't even try to kiss my mouth and instead kissed my chest. That made me feel bad and hit my confidence a lot

I sort of have some acidic taste in my mouth and hopefully i'll get rid of it very soon. This bugs me. I am on a diet now also good for my body and mind too

Dont wanna get a bad reaction from a guy that kisses me. Like disgusted and he won't text me ever again. I would feel even worse. All that confident the guy from this date told me i was would go straight to the bin

He texted me today again asking how's my weekend going. I told him what I did today and ended the text with a smiling emoji I guess during the date he wasn't sure if I liked him back