A 23-year-old Lincoln woman who took her public nudity case to trial — with a case hinging on a layer of pink paint — lost her fight this week.

Lancaster County Judge Jean A. Lovell, who heard the case, found Melissa Harrington guilty of the charge. Police cited Harrington with the city ordinance violation after they went to Cheerleaders, where she was emceeing a wet T-shirt contest and  appeared to be topless.

Harrington testified at trial she satisfied the ordinance, requiring an opaque covering over the areola and nipple, by putting a layer of pink paint on that part of her breasts.

But an officer testified at her trial that, if she had paint on that night, he couldn’t tell.

Harrington could face as much as eight months in jail or a $500 fine when Lovell sentences her Aug. 2.