Thank you all for your feedback! It's very helpful When I rendered it, I didn't set the light map any higher, so it stayed at 256... so it blotted all the shadows and made it darker at the scalp. I made a skullcap for Steph and Mike, which has made something things easiers and others, well, not. What I noticed is P5 Hair does 'rows'. It finds lines and does rows of hair - just like a wig. I did a render and set it higher, and it helped stopped the dense blackening at the roots - but it made seeing through the scalp easier. Oh - the material on this wig is Russet Apple :)