Very interesting. I had not thought of plugging in a raytrace node on a fully reflective object, but now that I think about it, I did mess around with that on wet skin texture to get an environment to show. Thank you for correcting the brain fart. I will try that out a bit more.

Now, one for you, can you do fake subsurface scattering? I have that going with the translucency settings.

Here's an old test. No translucency on left, some on right. This is a year old test. I'll post some newer images later. The contrast gradient is too sharp on this. I've gotten them more subtle and more realistic lately.