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Painting Justine the Holy
 
 to get this shade, I used the following steps:
  1. base with Oiled Leather (Reaper, a brown with red in it). Make sure that all of the dips & hollows between the hair strands are covered.
  2. take some Scorched Brown (Citadel, dark brown) and thin it with Magic Wash to the point where it looks like dirty water. Mop this liquid over the hair. The intent is to get it to settle between the strands while leaving very little color on the high points.
  3. this still looked a little too light, so I mixed another shade color consisting of Scorched Brown and Walnut (Reaper, a very dark brown). Once I mopped this on, I noticed right away that it was too dark. So when this layer dried I put a second wash of v. dilute Oiled Leather over it to lighten the general color tones.
  4. after everything had dried, I drybrushed a layer of Oiled Leather on to lighten the color even more.
  5. finally I lightly dusted the highest points with Hawkwood (Reaper, a beautiful  golden brown)