So, still working on my scene - wow, learning a lot.  I've turned the skins of my characters blue - teir'dal skin, and I found the perfect hair for the daughter character in The Petite Fleur hair by daz.  Problem is, the lightest color is a pale blonde, and I need silvery white.  I've been reading about making .rsr files and so downloaded the template for the Petite Fleur and decided to give it a go, but had some noobish questions. 

The template is long strips, which I suppose I paint the hair strands onto, but there are two templates.  Do I make two, is the one with long skinny strips like for tendrils and the other one for the base of the hair?   I'm guessing that other than the hair strands the rest of the mat should be black?  I'm uncertain and haven't found a clear answer and any pointers would be appreciated.  :)

yes i believe that the long skinny strips is for the "hair" and the other one is for the base. from what 've seen of hair textures both are the same color, so if you have photoshop, you can play with the curves tool to get different colors.

Hair textures can use more than one template.  A lot of us do hair texture packages and you might find one for the Petite Fleur hair here in the MP.

If you're going to make your own, then you'll need (if you want to use real hair textures) to purchase a resource kit here from the MP. 

I think I own every hair resource out there right now and make a lot of texture sets for hair but I've never done that particular hair.

Ahh, okay.  Yes, I think they probably are using real hair textures because the hair looks very nice.  I'll check into the resource kit.   I found a plat blonde that might work for this, but I'll have to see if it's silvery enough in the render. 

Thank you both for the great answers.  ;)