Nice job, that's pretty neat.  I like braids but (like you) I still haven't taken the time to learn to properly texture hair.

For this kind of thing, a long chain of bones intended to be posed smoothly together, it adds a lot for the user if you take the time to build some ERC controls so that the user can do a lot of posing with a few dials.  It's pretty easy to do this in Poser File Editor (select body part -> right click -> Create Value Control).  Probably a good idea to add IK to it as well although that's not so useful for very long chains of bones.

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