How do you make soft fluffy hair??

Im making a model and i was wondering if you could tell me how to make some soft fluffy hair to cover the ugly conection spot on the neck

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A nice overview and tutorial here
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartXIII/Particle_Hair

In blender there’s a help menu with a “Manual” entry that will take you to the wiki site where you can search and where I found this (apparently) very helpful link.