Hair going inside for some areas

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The hairs seem to be going outward like the normals?

Careful use of the weight painting ought to keep the hairs in place.

Hair systems can be tricky and Blender 3.3 will have a new system released in it.

Using the Site Talk section Wiki or searching the Ask section will reveal some ways of getting better results with hair particles.

The prime example is below.

Frustrating bald patches on your animal model? Use Triangles!

TL;DR: If you find your interpolated child hairs are sticking into your quad-model, use a Triangulate modifier before your particle system, and switch on the “Use Modifier Stack” option in the Particle settings. So, I don’t see a lot of people posting finished animals and I have a suspicion why - Blender’s child interpolation is broken on narrow cylindrical geometry, and therefore the “grooming” tools are pretty much useless there… no matter what you do your animal will always look as if it is …