I voted for the top two. I had a braidout once the summer after I BC'd (2008), and being that it was on small two-week-old cornrows, it looked FAB...but I have been unable to duplicate it since! My braidouts these days always look raggedy, so I stick to twistouts, which I like the look of on my hair. My hair is also too fine to put in small two strands (I tell my sister all the time that she is lucky to have thick plump twists) so I have to put them in the chunky ones -- ya know, 8-10 for my whole head, or 5 big flat twists, in order to get a decent twistout. Unfortunately, my twistout only looks good for maybe 3-4 days...luckily I discovered the wonders of using HE Hello Hydration on dry hair to retwist. As far as extensions go, box braids last longer, but senegalese twists are soooo much easier to put in and take out. I had box braids from January to mid-February and they looked great till the day I took them out, but it took me somewhere between 4-6 hours to remove the darn things! UGH!