shiny

We agreed that our car had never looked handsomer and shinier since our first day of ownership.

This softens the surface fibers, and they can then be rolled flatter and hence take a shinier surface.

That is, Charley grew rosier, and George's smooth black skin grew shinier, which was the same thing—for him.

Many were bigger than mine, with newer and shinier things, but they did not seem to differ in kind.