I was in the same situation but with my shoe laces I didn't know if to go with the regular
round ones or flat ones, I said screw it and got the Velcro "it was 99 cents!"
Dude paint it what ever you want, depending on the rims you might not even see it. If ur not sure just take them off completely who needs to stop any ways. "Ain't nobody got time for that shit"