Tahitian Pearls Colors

Tahitian Pearls are black. Tahitian Pearls are green. Tahitian Pearls are aborigine. Tahitian Pearls are metallic. They are these colors and more. The one big reason why pearls can't be made by man is that it is darn near impossible to create the look of a real pearl. Real pearls are built up layer by layer; the multiple layers all create color and reflect color differently.

Pearls are not a reflective surface. Light penetrates into the pearl nacre and is alternately reflected out and back in, which is one reason why they seem to have an inner light.

Tahitian Black Pearls on first glance may look black .They are black with countless high light. These highlights pick up color and reflect color back, so within the black pearl you will see a rainbow of color. Tahitian cultured pearls range from the black body color, to a medium gray, and my favorite is the black Tahitian pearl that looks metallic.

If you picked a color that was even more representative of the Tahitian pearl color, it would be green. Tahitian pearls can run from a pistachio to a deep blue green, and in between there may be aqua with rose highlights. Tahitian pistachio pearl jewelry is chartreuse green, with an iridescence that can reflect reds and blues from within the green color.

Although I never use the word aborigine in any other context except Tahitian Pearl Color it means the deep purple of eggplant. With the purples come blues and blue highlights. Also with the purples come reds. And my favorites are the metallics, all themselves with highlights of reds and blues.

Since they are all natural colors they range all over within these descriptions.

The rainbow colors, of Tahitian Black Pearl Jewelry, are like nothing else.

By Patrick Cavanaugh