Thanks guys.  I'm really happy you like the figure.  Vilters, that is some cool tricks in the mat room.  I've played around with all those different nodes, and generally, all I end up with is a big mess.  I do have a question for you.  You may have noticed that I used a small colored texture for the lashes.  If I took it away and just used the default to color the lashes, I always ended up with the lashes being way too dark in preview mode. I tried the alternate diffuse and had the same problem.  I really don't understand what I was doing wrong, but then again maybe it's my monitor or other settings that are out of whack.  Any ideas?