JMO, but I have to agree.
It's your ride, but I just don't get how you can sacrifice loss of lighting for aesthetics.
Especially when there are so many mods that you can do to the interior of the lights.

 

I agree with the suggestion above. Try something like goof-off. You really need to take the lights back to the original state and then decide what to do next.
You can't paint them black and then wet sand them down to the level of tint you want.

I suggest tinting them with cutouts for where the light exists the lens. I had a Z24 with tinted headlights and I couldn't see a damn thing on dark rainy nights.

 

Painting headlight lenses? Never hard of such a thing. I blacked out my headlights, but I took them apart and painted the bezels, I don't think a uniform dark color will look good anyways if the inside is still all chrome, terrible idea IMO, sorry man, I think you're kind of screwed, you should beat the guy who did this, he should have known that it wasn't going to look good or work well.

 

if you wanted some headlight tint you should just get some overlays: http://carcustomz.com/osc/infiniti-s...ay-p-1129.html

At least you'll still be able to see the road.

 

The picture makes me LOL.

 

sell them on ebay and pick up a new set

 

Classic.....

 

Yes, I've done this for my brother's tails on his Mazda. He had to remove the tinting spray on his tails.
I used nail polish remover and varsol. Worked awesome. Try the nail polish remover first, but you need the good polish remover, not the dollar store variety.
Then I used "headlight lens restorer/polish" to rid of any hazing.
The lights turned out cleaner/brighter than before he painted them.

Good luck.

 

nailpolish remover, should have thought of that before i spent about 4 hours sanding one headlight, ill give the nailpolish a try on the other one, tried buffing the one i sanded, looks like new

 

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Ive never seen anybody paint the lense before. Everybody paints the housing itself and leave the lense clear. I think it looks much better like that and retains all forms of legailty. If its painted, and clear coated, there really is no way to lighten it up aside from stripping the paint and starting over...in which case the plastic lense itself would probably be ruined.

 

Wow.

Seriously, you like how that looks???

 

i think you will have to sand them down, take it to a shop if your scared to do them yourself

 

Don't use nail polisher unless you want to f up your headlight casing. It'll eat through the plastic and leave burn marks.... of course, you can wet sand the crap out of it and buff it again, but... lol

 

FAIL. sorry, i gotta say this is the stupidest "mod" one can do, along with tinting the windshield.