Cleaner way to store an avatar downloaded via HTTP in Laravel?

I'm currently writing a method in Laravel to download the Facebook avatar over HTTP (using Intervention Image) and storing it in the storage_path() folder of Laravel, however when using third-party tools like Intervention, they don't detect and follow the same path conventions as Laravel does - especially in regards to the /storage/app/public/... directory.

What would be a cleaner way to do the below? (which works fine, but isn't very pretty)

            $filename = uniqid().'.jpg';
            $system_filename = 'public/avatars/'.$filename;
            $public_filename = 'storage/avatars/'.$filename;

            Storage::makeDirectory('public/avatars');

            $image = Image::make($fullAvatarPath);

            if($image->mime() === "image/jpeg")
            {
                $image->save(storage_path('app/'.$system_filename));
            }

            $this->update([
                'image' => asset($public_filename)
            ]);

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