Keying out strands of hair in keylight 1.2  in AE CS6

I have some strands of hair that have turned white at the tips after I key out my green screen.  Along with the top five adjustments in screen matte, I have enable edged correction, and tried suppressing several colors without being able to remove the whiteness entirely.  Are there any controls that you have found useful in decreasing these white hairs?
After Effects CS6
thank you,
Robert

The most common mistake shooting green screen (or blue) is to have the screen way too bright. I should not be at a higher average luminance than a face.
One solution might be duplicate your footage layer, apply color grading to bring the green way down and purify it, then pre-compose that color corrected copy and apply keylight and then use the pre-comp for a track matte for your original footage. Then you can also apply Keylight to the original footage and use the color correction tools in keylight to remove the spill and adjust the edges.
If you post a frame of the original footage I'll be glad to give it a go this afternoon.

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