Hair and Fur display problems

[2004834CJGS]

Hey everyone. I'm trying to do just normal eyelashes but I keep struggling with it. I created several splines, used Hair and Fur modifier, modified few settings such as count, density, colour etc.

I have two problems:

1) For better clarity I would appreciate if I could turn of visibility of the base object. I tried object properties but it's not working and it's disturbing while modeling or displaying in active shade render mode. [picture1]

2) When trying to render the scene, eyelashes seem to disappear. In active shade they are vidible but as soon as I try to render them, they are gone. [picture2]

I would appreciate if yoyu could help me with my problems, thanks in advance!

[2004834CJGS]

I managed to convert the hair to mesh and assigned material to it, works fine for now, but mystery still remains unsolved.