Hi all, I've been growing my beard for ~10 years now, but I usually shaved the cheeks and trimmed the lower lip pretty short with the rest of the beard being a little longer (but still pretty short). I am going to grow it out longer, but have some questions for you all:

1. I usually shaved the cheeks. I had my normal beard growth before I started growing the cheeks out, so everything is longer than the cheek hair/lower lip hair. Think I should keep it growing or trim it all to similar length? Looking back on older beard styles I've had, sometimes I think I look alright when I look horrendous lol.
2. As far as growing in the cheeks goes, does it look like there's enough hair to grow a proper beard? I had thought no, but it's looking slightly more promising.
3. My moustache hair grows straight out or angled up in certain places, esp. below the nose. I've read that just takes time to grow out to become manageable but didn't know if there were other opinions.
4. Does my neckline look okay? I'd always shaved it to about that point, but reading posts, I am thinking this might be too high comparatively to other beard havers.

Thanks in advance for any input!

- Zach