Attached Link: Bishonen with Cherry Blossoms

I've just discovered a technique for making textured hair work better in cartoon/manga/anime renders. One of the problems I've found with getting rid of the original texture entirely is that the hair may end up too flat. What I did was add a blender node between the node with the hair texture and everywhere that node was originally connected too. Plug the texture node into input 1 of the blender, and choose a color which is about the same for input 2. You can vary the percentage of the blend until you get what you like. At higher amounts for input 2, the hair looks very flat, at lower levels it looks as if it were pencil sketched and then colored.