The first thing you will need to do with your body kit once you have it is to paint it. This is actually a moderately complicated process that you are most likely not going to be able to do yourself. If you have received a kit unprimed and unprepped, you will need to get both of those done before painting it. The tools that are required to paint the car are only going to be available in a professional paint shop.

Some benefits to having a shop do the prep work and painting for you include:

• Better job done - no blotchy or uneven looking paint
• Use of good materials to create a finished look
• Matching of the proper paint color to your car color to get it right the first time

Trying to paint a kit yourself requires the right tools and most people don't have them, let alone the experience to do a proper job. This is one of those things best left to professionals unless you have experience painting cars already of course.

If you are dead set on doing this process by yourself, check out WingsWest's videos here. Watching these just might change your mind and have you heading to a shop.

What if I don't want to have to take it to a shop to get it painted?

There is one other option that is really the best one and that is ordering a kit with it already prepped, primed, and painted. You can order kits that come pre-painted with the factory color options. So if you are painting your entire car a new unique color, you won't be able to get it pre-painted. But, if you are staying with the same color, then ordering the kit pre-painted is the way to go.
By going this route you will be able to completely skip painting the body kit and move right into the final stage: Installing the Body Kit.