Top tips, some fine looking beards among you and thanks for the encouragement - Avocadoshake, I look forward to following others on a similar timeline

So, if I make a new line above the apple, is it to be horizontal around the throat when the head is level, or some kind of curve ? - I'm thinking that if it just goes straight around, will it fade/thin out naturally as it goes round the sides - it will also be much easier to do! Or I can grow it out and surrender myself to a beardy barber. Plenty examples on here for research I suppose.

I used to be a proper redhead, complete with appropriate nicknames, and people don't believe me as I'm quite a lot darker now (well, mostly - but I'm not showing anyone the bits that are still red just to prove a point!), so I'm really hoping that some red will come through in the beard, as well as the inevitable white, of which there is none on my head at all (nor much of anything else...) but I seem to be getting a few patches on the chin.

I already love stroking the fuzz, my son thinks it's weird, and my wife laughs and doesn't think I'll stick it. So of course that means I will.