Hair strans snapping to body mesh

Not sure if that is a good description. Editing the individual strands with the comb brush, when I pushing the stand it snaps back in a different direction, and goes into the body mesh. My method is using a separate mesh for the hairs to grow out of. Also I have no modifiers applied to this mesh, or is parented the body mesh. The blender version is 2.67a.
Has anyone experience this, or have an idea what maybe causing this. Thanks

Have you checked if your normals are facing outwards?

In edit mode, select all faces and hit ctrl + n.