The hair is half a million polys. Quite a lot. 

If you don't use IDL and won't use ray traced shadows, the render needs only a few minutes. Ray tracing needs a lot of render time, actually.

Is it worth it? I like to have believable lights in the scene, and this difficult without IDL, AO and ray traced shadows.

 

And yes, I could have styled the hairs a little bit more, it's not really a great hairstyle. The question is if it looks believable. 

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