Eyelashes Not Rendering in Arnold Renderer

pholland1

I am not a surefacer,

but I asked my friend and he held me a bit. Not enough to fix the problem, but it seems the shaders are not hooked up to Arnold. We tried manually hooking up the phong with the eyelashes to the renderer. That didn't work but then we switched the phong to another type and that seemed to do something in the renderer. but it still showed the outline of the geo as a shadow.

any thoughts? advice? Have you guys had this issue?

Any help would be appreciated.