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Black Hair Dye

Fail

Prices span $2.54–$7.80, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Black Hair Dye is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 1,655 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£326K/yr665K searches / yr
90-day growth
+7.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 46 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Hair Dye against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Black Hair Dye is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Hair Dye market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Black Hair Dye 665K times last year and spent an estimated £326K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 665K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +7.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £326K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
665K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+7.0%
Conversion, latest week
10.5%
Market size, estimated
£326Ka year
Peak month
April2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
black hair dye453K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.69.

Listings sell for £4.69 on average, from £2.54 to £7.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At £4.69 that is £28K to £38K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.69under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.54–£7.80
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
£28K–£38K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 91% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #22 within Hair Colour. It carries 6,778 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
91%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#22in Hair Colour
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,778per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Black Hair Dye products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

46

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 319%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Black Hair Dye search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

25K15KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Black Hair Dye search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • black hair dye453K/yr
  • hair dye black38K/yr
  • black hair dye permanent36K/yr
  • jet black hair dye28K/yr
  • natural black hair dye14K/yr
  • permanent black hair dye10K/yr
  • hair black dye7K/yr
  • live black hair dye7K/yr
  • black permanent hair dye8K/yr
  • garnier black hair dye8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Hair Dye

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

20%of positive reviews mention “Color”
21%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Black dyes are just not what used to be these days”
A buyer, on “Color”21% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Hair Dye questions

Answered from the same tracked data.