Quote - I am having the same problem with the light colors of hair. I tried changing to the alternate diffuse color (same color as diffuse, white, and I did take the diffuse to 0 percent) this worked on part of it but for some reason part of the hair rendered white, and also it does look flat and cartoony.

Make sure you do all of that for all parts of the hair listed in the drop down menu.

Also, try turning off "cast shadows" in the parameter dials properties for the hair.

I did all of that for Alice hair by Kozaburo and achieved this result for the blonde hair:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/contest/index.php?entry_id=25565

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