hair/fur questions

hi,

i am making a hat, a top hat, and i want it to have fur, i know how to make it and everything but when i go to get the fur, it just poofs out on one side and evrything else is left without anything, so how would i apply fur to the entire thing

also, how do i make fur/hair curl

If you’re making the fur via particles check if you have selected a vertices group to be used as a source for the particles.
For a curly hair create a bezier curve, make it curly and then go to the fields and deflection panel and choose curve guide

EDIT: Sometimes Ctrl+A(apply size and rotation) repairs the particles