Specialist Gloves Skins

Weapon skins were introduced to Counter-Strike with CS:GO's Arms Deal update in August 2013, which brought Cases, the Steam Community Market, and the first tradable weapon finishes to the game. The earliest Specialist Gloves finish with a confirmed release date tracked on CS2Owl is Specialist Gloves | Crimson Kimono from Operation Hydra, released on May 23, 2017. Since then, the Specialist Gloves skin lineup has grown to 19 skins, with none available in StatTrak™ versions and none currently available as a Souvenir edition.

Early finishes were plain, single-pattern designs. Later Cases introduced layered, custom-illustrated artwork and textured finishes, expanding what a weapon skin could look like well beyond a solid color or simple camo.

When Valve relaunched the game as Counter-Strike 2 on September 27, 2023, every existing Specialist Gloves finish carried over unchanged onto the new engine, and new finishes have kept releasing through CS2's own Cases and Collections since.