Collision in Hair using the Hair Dynamics option

I’ve been looking high and low, in all the forums, but I was introduced to BA very very recently, so I’m asking this here too:
Is it possible to do PROPER hair collision in BLender, using the Hair Dynamics option? If so, how can I do it?

TRIED AND FAILED:

1) Force field hack
2) Softbody Dynamics (totally doesn’t give realistic results)
3) Friction settings in the Collision setting in Physics panel. (for the basemesh, not the particles)