I don't know exacttly what you mean, but my late hair (Hollywood hair, SMV hair, etc) starts with a cylinder with another cylinder inside it, then it is mapped, then it is bent to form one curl (with one end burried slightly inside the head, as you said), then it is cloned around the head, modifing each one in turn. Actually the above sounds a lot easier than it really was to do it, I had to do about 5 hairset before I got one I liked!