Aqua Chrome Hotfix Rhinestones – Metallic Aqua SS10

Meet Aqua Chrome—a vibrant aqua hotfix rhinestone with a sleek chrome/metallic finish and brilliant reflective shine. 🩵✨💎

Aqua Chrome isn't your traditional transparent aqua rhinestone. Its chrome/metallic finish creates a more opaque, highly reflective appearance that combines fresh aqua color with the visual impact of polished metal.

The result is bright, bold and wonderfully different from a traditional blue or blue-green glass rhinestone.

And here's one you definitely want to audition on WHITE fabric. 🤍🩵 The light background creates beautiful contrast with Aqua Chrome's metallic color and allows that reflective finish to stand out in an entirely different way.

Use Aqua Chrome for lettering, apparel, accessories, rhinestone templates, school and team colors, tropical and ocean-inspired projects and designs that need a bold metallic pop of aqua.

Pair it with white for crisp contrast, black for drama, silver or crystal tones for cool sparkle, or traditional blues, aquas and greens when you want to create dimension using different finishes.

Fresh aqua. Metallic shine. Absolutely impossible to mistake for ordinary blue. 🩵✨💎

🩵 What Makes Aqua Chrome Different?

Aqua Chrome belongs to our chrome/metallic rhinestone family, giving it a noticeably different appearance from traditional transparent colored glass rhinestones.

Its more opaque, reflective finish creates the visual effect of polished metal while the faceted glass surface provides beautiful sparkle.

That means choosing Aqua Chrome isn't simply about choosing another shade of blue.

You're choosing a different finish and an entirely different finished look.

🩵 Aqua Chrome, Aquamarine or Blue Zircon?

If you're shopping in the blue-to-aqua family, these stones may live in neighboring color territory—but they have very different personalities.

Aquamarine gives you a fresh aquatic blue with traditional colored-glass clarity and sparkle.

Blue Zircon moves toward a vibrant blue-green jewel tone.

Aqua Chrome gives you a more opaque, highly reflective metallic aqua effect.

Choose Aqua Chrome when the metallic finish itself is part of the look you want.

Because sometimes your project needs aquatic sparkle.

And sometimes it needs:

SHINY AQUA METAL. 🩵✨😂

🤍 Try Aqua Chrome on White!

While we often reach for black fabric to test rhinestone sparkle, Aqua Chrome deserves a white-fabric audition, too.

Against white and other light-colored materials, the deeper metallic aqua color becomes clearly defined while the reflective facets catch the light beautifully.

Try it against both light and dark fabrics before making your final choice—you may be surprised by how differently the color presents.

✨ Build a Mixed-Finish Aqua Palette

Aqua Chrome is also a great way to introduce extra dimension into a blue, aqua or green monochromatic design.

Try combining it with traditional glass aquas, blues and greens, crystal, silver tones or other coordinating specialty finishes.

Differences in transparency, color depth and reflectivity can make related colors look dramatically different when they're used together.

So yes—you absolutely can use several aqua or blue-green rhinestones in the same design.

Around here, “they're both aqua” is merely the beginning of the conversation. 😂💎

🎨 Need Help Finding the Perfect Color?

Already know the color family you're looking for? Shop Rhinestones by Color to browse colors and specialty collections.

Want help finding colors that work beautifully together? Let Sparkle Select do the color matching for you! 💎

Start with a color you love and discover coordinating rhinestone palettes using complementary, analogous, triadic and other color combinations.

Visit SparkleSelect.com to pick your color, build your palette and make it sparkle! ✨

💎 Available Size

Aqua Chrome is currently offered in SS10, our most popular size and the size used in the majority of rhinestone templates.

Current package options include:

• 20 gross SS10
• 100 gross SS10

📦 Your Rhinestones Arrive Ready to Store

No wondering whether the storage container pictured is included—it is! 💎

Our rhinestones are packaged in our reusable Ice Box storage system based on quantity selected:

• 20 gross SS10 – arrives in an Ice Chip
• 100 gross SS10 – arrives in a Junior Ice Box

Your rhinestones arrive organized and ready to use—no separate storage container required.

🔥 Hotfix Rhinestones

These rhinestones have a heat-activated adhesive backing and can be applied using a heat press or compatible single-stone heat tool.

Pressing Instructions

For best results:

1. Pre-press your item for 15 seconds.
2. Apply the hotfix rhinestones using a heat press with firm pressure for 12 seconds at 350°F.
3. Thicker fabrics may require additional pressing time. Always adjust time, temperature and pressure as needed for your specific fabric and equipment.

Washing Instructions

Wash in cold water only and lay flat to dry.

✨ Rhinestone Details

These rhinestones are made from low-lead glass crystal for beautiful clarity and shine.

Aqua Chrome features a chrome/metallic finish that gives the stone its distinctive opaque, highly reflective aqua appearance.

Our stones are packaged based on volume. Rhinestone counts are defined approximations and are not guaranteed. Contents may settle during shipping.

Store your rhinestones in a cool, dry environment away from direct sunlight to help maintain their longevity.

💎 Please Note About Metallic Colors

Because Aqua Chrome has a highly reflective metallic finish, its appearance can change depending on lighting, viewing angle, surrounding colors and screen/device settings.

Its aqua color may appear more blue, more green, lighter, deeper or more reflective under different conditions. This variation is part of the visual character of a chrome/metallic rhinestone.

We do our best to photograph and display colors accurately. However, slight variations in color may occur between batches.

If you're adding Aqua Chrome rhinestones to stones you already own, we recommend purchasing enough for your entire project at one time for the closest possible match.

Not recommended for children under 13.