In the end, the pink fabric paint wasn’t enough to save a 23-year-old Lincoln woman from a public nudity conviction.

A Lincoln judge found Melissa Harrington guilty last week of violating a city ordinance when she emceed a wet T-shirt contest at Cheerleaders on March 4, topless.

Harrington argued she wasn’t violating the law, which requires an opaque covering over the areola and nipple, because she wore pink paint, like a pastie, on that part of her breasts.

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

Harrington said she mixed the paint to match her skin, and it dried with a latex-like texture that peeled off.

Her attorney, Chad Wythers, even offered a sample, similar to what she’d been wearing that night, as an exhibit.

In her ruling, Lancaster County Judge Jean A. Lovell said the paint wasn’t enough.

“An examination of Exhibit 1 clearly reveals areas that are transparent and translucent,” she wrote.

According to the ordinance, the covering must be fully opaque, not transparent or translucent.

Next comes Harrington’s sentencing. She could face as much as eight months in jail or a $500 fine when Lovell sentences her Aug. 2.