A pearl pigment comprising a flaky powder coated on the surface with a colored metal or a colored metal oxide, wherein the surface of the colored metal- or colored metal oxide-coated flaky powder is further coated with a colorless metal or a colorless metal oxide, wherein when the pearl pigment is applied onto the surface of black artificial leather in an average amount of 0. 05 mg/cm 2 and the intensity of light reflected from the pearl pigment is measured using illuminant C at a 2° viewing angle with a spectrophotometric colorimeter which is provided with a sheet polarizer S on the light incident side and a sheet polarizer P on the light receiving side, the powder reflection light which is incident to the pearl pigment as a measurement sample at an angle of 45° to the direction normal to the surface of the sample and is received in the direction normal to the surface of the sample has absolute values a* and b* of 10 or less, wherein the average surface roughness of the coating of the colored metal or colored metal oxide coated on the surface of the flaky powder is 10 nm or less, wherein the flaky powder is mica, sericite, talc, kaolin, smectite clay mineral, synthetic mica, synthetic sericite, platelet-shaped titanium dioxide, platelet-shaped silica, platelet-shaped aluminium oxide, boron nitride, barium sulfate or platelet-shaped titania-silica composite oxide, wherein the colored metal is gold or copper and wherein the colored metal oxide is iron oxide, lower titanium oxide, copper oxide, cobalt oxide, chromium oxide or nickel oxide, wherein the colorless metal is titanium, zirconium, zinc, tin, silicon or aluminium and wherein the colorless metal oxide is titanium oxide, zinc oxide or aluminium oxide. wherein when the pearl pigment is applied onto the surface of black artificial leather in an average amount of 0. 05 mg/cm 2 and the intensity of light reflected from the pearl pigment is measured using illuminant C at a 2° viewing angle with a spectrophotometric colorimeter which is provided with a sheet polarizer S on the light incident side and a sheet polarizer P on the light receiving side, the powder reflection light which is incident to the pearl pigment as a measurement sample at an angle of 45° to the direction normal to the surface of the sample and is received in the direction normal to the surface of the sample has absolute values a* and b* of 10 or less, wherein the average surface roughness of the coating of the colored metal or colored metal oxide coated on the surface of the flaky powder is 10 nm or less, wherein the flaky powder is mica, sericite, talc, kaolin, smectite clay mineral, synthetic mica, synthetic sericite, platelet-shaped titanium dioxide, platelet-shaped silica, platelet-shaped aluminium oxide, boron nitride, barium sulfate or platelet-shaped titania-silica composite oxide, wherein the colored metal is gold or copper and wherein the colored metal oxide is iron oxide, lower titanium oxide, copper oxide, cobalt oxide, chromium oxide or nickel oxide, wherein the colorless metal is titanium, zirconium, zinc, tin, silicon or aluminium and wherein the colorless metal oxide is titanium oxide, zinc oxide or aluminium oxide.