This is how the default brush will look like (hit the alpha channel button shown in the paint effects canvas picture to work only with alpha).
Now to customize the brush hit Ctrl+b to open the Paint Effects Brush Settings dialog box. Here you can find all the parameters you will have to modify to customize the brush and there are plenty (I did not count them but I remember in a tutorial saying that there are more than a hundred params for paint effects brush settings) .You will not have to play with all of them ... but some are quite useful.
Pay attention to the brush profile parameters, especially Brush Width and Stamp Density.
Also under the Tubes section you will find Creation and there you have Tubes per step which modify the density of the tubes , the segments attribute (which you will have to increase if you have curly hair) (tip: you can enter a bigger value than the maxim allowed when you drag any slider by numerically entering the value in the field).
You can also modify some parameters in the Tubes->Behavior to alter the behavior of the brush.
In the Forces sections you can modify Path Follow so that the tubes will closely follow the path if you draw curved strokes and add randomness to the tubes using Random parameter.
Also play with the attributes found under Turbulence, Spiral and Bend ... they will add a lot of variation to the brush strokes. Here are some results after playing with the parameters listed above:
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