paint a pattern or shape on hair texture
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im very new to any sort of 3d content creation. is it possible to paint a shape or pattern directly on to the hair that goes beyond just simple different shades of color?

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If they're transmapped hairs, depending on UV layout, yes, you can make it with LIE, Diffuse Overlay with Iray Shader. Geo-shell or iray Decal node can also make it work. You can make the texture maps with Image Editor or directly paint the texture with Blender or Adobe Pt.
A quick example down below uses Diffuse Overlay ~~