Hair Color Trouble (Black hair to white)

Hi everyone,

I've just spent the last 3 hours trying every layer mask combo I could think of to create a realistic shade of white hair that doesn't look like I just used the brush tool to make it.

I've tried lighting up the shadows with the curves option then using the selective color option. But all that does is make a very fake looking film to put over the eyebrows (ya it's eyebrows I'm working on, I'm trying to get them to match a white wig the subject is wearing.)

I've also tried using the solid color option, and a color overlay and that just came out weird.

Has anyone ever turned pitch black hair to white and had it still look like hair?

I never tried it myself...

But I was thinking, how about you copy the eyes to a new layer and inverse the colors on the new layer and than mask out everything that shouldn't be affected by your inverse action.

I'll think about some other options a bit more... Good luck!

Ya, never actually tried it, but...I assume its possible, no clue how, and can't test it out at the moment sorry.

I have made black hair look grey by de-saturating and brightening/increasing contrast, but never to white.

What about selecting the eyebrows and cloning hair from the wig into the selection? Might work.