Chrome nails
Chrome is a powder, not a polish. It is burnished into a cured gel top coat until the surface reflects like metal, which is why a chrome set looks different in a photograph than it does on your hand. Twenty-four of them below.
Design ideas: these are generated references for a style. None of them shows a KuQueen session, and we do not publish a client’s nails without asking her first.
The base underneath decides the metal. The same silver powder over black reads as gunmetal and over a nude reads as bright chrome, which is why two of the sets here look like different products and are the same jar. If you send one of these, the base matters as much as the powder.
Chrome shows everything underneath it. A mirror finish magnifies any ridge or bump in the nail, so the prep takes longer than for a colour and the surface has to be genuinely flat before the powder goes on. That is the honest reason a chrome set is not the quickest thing to book.
It grows out like any gel and it does not chip so much as dull at the edge. The pearl and the lavender hide regrowth for longest because there is least contrast at the cuticle; the gunmetal and the blue show it soonest.
24 chrome nail designs, from silver to gunmetal
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Silver chrome
Medium almond nails in a mirror silver chrome, on warm brown skin.
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Rose gold chrome
Long coffin nails in a warm rose gold chrome, on morena skin against a light grey background.
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Pearl chrome
Medium almond nails in a pearly white chrome with an opalescent sheen, on warm tan skin against a light grey background.
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Gold chrome
Short squoval nails in a bright yellow gold chrome, on medium brown skin.
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Gunmetal chrome
Long coffin nails in a dark smoky gunmetal chrome, on medium brown skin.
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Lavender chrome
Short round nails in a pale lavender chrome, on kayumanggi skin against a light grey background.
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Blue chrome
Long almond nails in a vivid cobalt blue chrome, on kayumanggi skin against a light grey background.
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Copper chrome
Medium almond nails in a warm copper bronze chrome, on medium brown skin.
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Pink chrome
Short round nails in a bright pink chrome, on kayumanggi skin against a light grey background.
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Green chrome
Short almond nails in a deep emerald green chrome, on warm brown skin.
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Chrome French tip
Medium square nails with a sheer nude base and a mirror silver chrome tip, on tan brown skin.
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One chrome accent
Medium almond nails in a bare nude with one silver chrome accent nail, on warm brown skin.
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Glazed donut chrome
Medium almond nails in milky nude with a pearly white chrome glaze, on morena skin on cream linen.
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Aurora chrome
Medium oval nails in iridescent aurora chrome shifting pink, violet and teal, on warm tan skin near green leaves.
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Red chrome coffin
Long coffin nails in deep red mirror chrome, on light Filipino skin resting on white marble.
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Black chrome
Medium almond nails in glossy black chrome with a mirror shine, on kayumanggi skin on grey stone.
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Chrome swirl lines
Medium oval nails in milky nude with raised wavy silver chrome lines, on morena skin holding a white mug.
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Lilac chrome, short square
Short square nails in lilac silver mirror chrome, on warm tan skin on light wood near a small plant.
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Champagne chrome
Medium squoval nails in pale champagne gold mirror chrome, on light Filipino skin on white linen in warm light.
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Mocha chrome
Medium almond nails in coffee brown with a warm bronze chrome sheen, on morena skin holding a glass of iced coffee.
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Emerald chrome stiletto
Long stiletto nails in deep emerald green mirror chrome, on warm tan skin against blurred monstera leaves.
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Baby blue pearl chrome
Short round nails in powder blue with a pearly chrome sheen, on kayumanggi skin resting on a cream cushion.
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Chrome half-moon
Short oval nails in deep plum with a silver mirror chrome half-moon at each cuticle, on warm tan skin on travertine.
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Holographic chrome
Long coffin nails in silver holographic chrome throwing rainbow reflections, on morena skin in bright window light.
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