Hi Mike, welcome to the board.

Your overall coverage is good and while there's a bit of patchiness in the cheeks, I think over the next 3 to 4 months it will fill out well. Good call not to allow the barber to butcher your beard. You need extra length to help fill it out. Moustache looks fine. The sides just need time and patience.

One thing I would do is carve a neckline. Otherwise with the lighter cheeks you're going to have a bottom heavy looking beard. And a neck beard while hugely beneficial for a longer beard, doesn't look great with a shorter beard IMO.

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