It Girl Facebook Game Guide: cheats, hints, tips, tricks, strategies

It Girl is a new Facebook game for girls that has become extremely popular in a short period of time, earning, up to this point, 3.3 million monthly active users on Facebook since its debut just around a month ago. In It Girl, you get to customize your girl's look, shop at all sorts of stores for new clothes, earn money and spend money on the clothes and going to the salon in order to increase your "hotness", and build your "clique", as well as indulge your inner shopaholic and build up your "closet bonus" by increasing the size of your clothing collection - the more you have, the more points you get for the "closet bonus", no matter which clothing items you're wearing or not wearing. All of this goes towards winning "showdowns" against other girls, which earns you money and experience points.

Do you want to become the hottest, most jet-setting, with-it partying girl, winning every showdown you engage in? Then read the following tips to learn how.

Right now, unfortunately, there isn't very much available in this game in the way of cheats. Cheats wouldn't help too much in this game anyway, because it's really not a tough game to do well in, become a high level girl, or make a lot of money. However, these tips and tricks will make it easier to succeed in It Girl.

First of all, you earn money in many ways - you earn a lot of bonuses in this game, and those can account for a good portion of the money. But the biggest money-earner in this game, is simply waiting around. You earn an hourly salary simply for doing nothing in this game - just log into the game, and there will be a stack of cash for every hour that you haven't played the game. Each one is worth more depending on what level you're at. Click the bonus cash stacks to earn your money.

This applies to all of your bonus money, as well - when you beat girls in showdowns, you will see cash and stars fall to the floor, and you need to pick them up to add them to your stash of money and experience points.

Money doesn't matter very much in It Girl - the most important aspects of the game are energy, confidence and experience points. However, money will buy you not only a new wardrobe, but confidence boosters (such as bronzer and makeup), and energy boosters (fancy coffee drinks and energy drinks). If you buy the confidence and energy boosters, you'll add them to your purse, so rather than being used right away, you can use them whenever you want. When you level up, you regain all of your confidence and energy back, so don't waste your energy boosters when you're close to leveling it - simply wait around for a little bit and let your confidence and energy replenish naturally, then use your confidence and energy on shopping and winning showdowns to level up.

The easiest way to win more showdowns is by building your "clique". You do this by inviting your Facebook friends to play the game and join your clique, which can be accomplished not only by posting invite bulletins, but simply adding people on the game's fan pages' "add me" lists, or by adding people who are already on "add me" lists as friends. Build a massive clique this way.

Build up your closet points by buying cheap items of clothing, no matter how low their hotless level is. Just load your closet up with items in general. Even if you never wear them, they still contribute to your "hotness".

When you're dressing your character, layer as many different items of clothing as possible in order to maximize the hotness points. Even if your character's style ends up looking flat-out ridiculous and overlayered, your hotness will still increase, and the goal with dressing your character, is to have the most hotness points.

If you need to build your character up and you want to win easy showdowns, you can attend events over and over again - just attend the same events over and over if you know you can easily win showdowns and get the bonuses.

The best way to build quick levels and earn experience, though, especially without spending money, is to go to new stores and "search" all of the shelves and racks. Searching costs nothing and earns you bonuses, but it does use up energy quickly.

To maximize how much experience you earn for your energy and confidence, alternate back and forth between shopping and showdowns, so that you can not only deplete both of them equally, but earn them back equally.

That's it for now. Got any more tips? Post them in comments!