Hmmm, somehow managed to delete rather than edit. lets try this again.

Yeah, I have that 'Merkin' prop, too. ChristianDarkin's @ renderotica.

Quarker (the creator of Sapphire Fox Hair) also made a really nice free one intended for A3 and Ty2 which can also be used with V4 with a little adjustment.

http://quarker.blog5.fc2.com/blog-category-2.html

I've found that a Transmapped Multiplane one sided prop with textures works best for close cropped effects, the strand based props tend to be a little sparse or too horizontally wirey (somewhat remedied by an underlying texture).