Hidden Beauty

Has anyone else ever found that when someone suddenly seems more attractive at 2nd or 3rd or even a 10th look than they did at 1st glance, it seems to add a whole new level of interest?

Maybe that's not a good way of putting it.

I just mean, if I meet a girl that's average looking or mildly attractive or even beautiful the first time I see her, but then after talking or some interaction, or maybe even the light catches her just right or something... and there's this moment of, "Oh.... she really is pretty." ...it seems to add something to her attraction.

And more so than just if I'd seen her like that from the start.

Okay, here's an incredibly shallow and ridiculous way of putting it (and NO I don't score people when I meet them... I just feel like this might clarify my point): But if I meet her and on a scale she were like a... 5, but then the "moment of enlightenment" comes and she's like an... 8. Well, now it's more like she's a 9 or a 10... better than if I'd seen her as an 8 to begin with.

It doesn't seem like that makes sense, which is why I've opened this entry as a question.

Could it be simply as selfish as wanting to have seen something in her that maybe few others have seen? Sort of a possessive need to indulge in a beauty that maybe no one else has noticed?

Or is it just a natural reaction to something getting better, instead of staying the same or getting worse? Am I subconsciously thinking that if she's this much more intriguing in these few moments, maybe she'll continue to grow more interesting as time goes on?

Oh, and no, this isn't really referring to anything specific that's happened recently, it's just something I've wondered about before, and was curious if anyone else has had similar experiences.