I use also velvet node to get the right color of the hair , the skin will not affected by , if you set the velvet base color to black and the shine to white the fur will catch the scene light as well, what is so good about the light velvet node that it will visible aslo on black scenes and if you don't use it you will see not much from this effect..

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