Stop in for a cup of coffee

After doing the SS to perfection, I sanded a spot on my chrome bumper. The look of the bumper even after 2000 grit was ahh crap.
I thought I was paying for a re-chrome. Took the mag polish and it all smoothed out.
All a matter of how thick the chrome was and how much you removed. If you are still in the chrome layer it will polish out. Usually you start seeing yellow from the next layer. Will still shine, just not nice chrome silver.