"Paint flakes", HA! You haven't christened it until you've spilled a full bottle of Gorilla Glue onto it. Not the wood glue, the poly glue that doesn't easily wash out and you find missed hardened blobs for the next six months...
I decided mine looked better if I dyed one arm of it with a quarter bottle of RocketPoxy black dye. Shirt matches, too! (at least one sleeve). Not my most graceful moment.