My curly hair process - Digital Art

Hair procress of one of my characters.Little info on her
Cover for a side comic I'll be doing

Closer look

In the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago the Lagahoo (or Li Gahoo) is a mythical shapeshifting monster. It is cousin to the French loup-garou and the Germanic werewolf, yet not restricted to the form of a wolf.

1: Base hair
2: Add shadows(My main focus is which part of the hair is higher than the other by using one light to portray that)
3: Add highlights for short curls
4: Highlights for longer curls
5: Merged all layers and used and overlay brush for main light
6: Duplicated layer, carried up the contrast and changed the colour to a purple for the ambient colour
7:Created a mask and erased the top part of layer 5 leaving the bottom half of layer 6 to be seen
8: Clean up and blend

High res image here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zQ9D2