Smoked LED head & tail lights Options

[Jokester]

So I'm planning to smoke out all of my lights (heads, tails, side indicators, front turn signals) and I have a couple of questions. And I'm planning on using the tint film instead of the paint cause I'm scared I might effed it up if I use paint. So...

1. Does a smoked headlights look good on a 6g celi? Cause I've seen many with smoked tails, but not with the heads. If anyone has a pic of their celi with smoked heads, it would be great if you could post it.

2. Switch to LED/SMD bulbs?? At first I thought this would be an obvious choice because with the lights being smoked, the bulbs need to be brighter to be seen thru the smoked layer. But after reading several forums, there are many controversies with using LEDs for tail light. I was just wondering what are your guys opinion on this? If I do get LEDs, I will get colored LEDs (red for stop/parking light, yellow for turning, white for reverse). So hopefully that would help with the brightness?

Btw, I'm planning on using these LED bulbs if I do get them.

Or these

[k-weaver]

I had my rears blacked out for a while. Got pulled over one too many times in CA so I gave up on it. I used the VHS nightshades to tint, worked well. After getting ticketed I used too strong of a paint thinner to remove the tint. My tails are full of scratches now. I threw a couple of light coats back on there to cover the scratches. They are darker than stock but you can still see the red/amber color. its just a deeper color now, not as bright.

As far as your LED idea goes the lights won't be all that much brighter. You can purchase (as someone as linked to) dual stage bulbs (part 1157), i have some right now in my turn signals. I put a set just like your first pic into my wife's honda for her brake lights and they weren't nearly as bright as regular halogen bulbs.

Pic of mine when they were black: