Today's hair

So, continuing my thoughts from yesterday about braid bases for updos.

First: Yesterdays hair. An english braid with the middle part braided into a minibraid.

The minibraid shorted the part up a lot and made it the same length as the side pieces. 

But I don't think it showed a lot?

Today's hair:  Yesterdays braid wrapped up in a nautilus.
Sounded good in theory, but the nautilus really ate up the mini braid detail. I could barely tell even though I knew it was there.