i've got a clear strip at the bottom of my DIY 6th gen black housings....i had a set of aftermarket black housings that got damaged when some dude hit my car, so i did my stock lights in black and pulled the clear strip out of the aftermarkets to put into the stock ones...that's about the only way i know of to get that clear strip tho...i didn't wanna go with no strip...i painted that turn signal section black too tho...i hate when people leave that part chrome...it looks stupid...the whole housing is black, the turn signal bulb is still amber but during the day u cant see it when it's not illuminated because it's set so deep into the black housing...good luck with the project...and those silver star bulbs are completely legal...law basically says, the lens or bulb can be any color u want as long as it lights up amber or red....and actually out here u can have any color turn signal's u want except blue, every other color is legal