That's true, the TYC's do in fact look better than the halos but at the same time Emily has five THOUSAND dollars to work with here.
If you still have your stock headlights, you could send either those or your blackhousing ones to a retrofit place, wait like two weeks or however long it takes, then get them back and take them to a place to get put in.
I mean if I didn't live on the other side of the country I could get them working once you had them on hand, but with that money you could get just about the nicest lights for your car you can think of.
All that and paint... I dunno paint labour is expensive. DO NOT go to macco. GL with everything I wont hate like the others. *cough cough* six speed swap *cough cough*