To provide a method for forming a pearl gloss coating film capable of obtaining a coating film developing a design looked so that the hue change boundary part of a highlight part right-angled in a light incident direction and a shade part oblique with respect to the light incident direction gently changes accompanied by chromatic tinting of high chroma ('chromatic tinting pearl gloss'), and a coated article obtained by the method.

In the method for forming the pearl gloss coating film, a color base coating film layer is formed on a base material and an interference clear coating layer containing an interference pigment is formed on the color base coating film layer and a matte top clear coating layer containing chromatic tinting resin fine particles having a color akin to the interference color of the interference pigment as a matting agent is further formed thereon.