You have great color, and a really cool two-tone effect starting to develop that will really help define your beard. As PMKinFTW said, lighter colors (reds, blonds, and greys like mine) often require a bit of extra time to achieve a full look - but when you get there, you will find yourself a proud owner of one of the most distinguished beards around. Don't worry about how it's coming in at the moment since every area on your face will grow at a different rate. Instead of shaving, keep your hands busy with something else. Based on your photos, it looks like you have plenty to choose from. Design a building or run through a kata - just don't shave. Keep growing.

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Kind regards,

Greyfur

My journey

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton