hair shaders

I am currently looking for ways to render the hair on my character. At the moment its matt black. I would like a little bit more reflectivity to the hair however when i try to add a specular colour, it will be too bright and there is no real hair shine. so i trying to get a good inbetween.

Heres a videos and websites i have looked at.

https://vimeo.com/79104550

https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/current/RenderMan/tutorialRenderingFurAndHair.html

this one is really helpful

https://blog.mentalray.com/2014/11/06/xgen-hair-and-custom-shaders/