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Brown Mascara

Brown Mascara shows low returns (0.1%), but pricing outside the sweet spot ($6.22 avg) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

54
Worth a look

Top 19% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +7 vs the category median of 47

Market size 55Growth 22Conversion 90Competition 53Returns 100Price range 24Avg price 17Brand share 46Review moat 19Quality gap 80
This niche Category average · 2,481 niches

Is Brown Mascara profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Brown Mascara is a £382K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (573K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 77% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 54/100.

Brown Mascara: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -5.6% over the last 90 days and 10.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£382K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr60K
Search volume / yr-5.6%573K
Conversion rate10.7%
Avg price£6.22

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 77% of demand, so 23% of the market is open.

23%

open market share

Brands · sellers15 · 344
Top-5 product click share53%
Open market23%
Avg brand age46 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.2★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 31 products

Sponsored placement90%
New entrants (1y)5· 3 succeeded
Avg rating4.2★
Avg reviews15,276

Top Brown Mascara products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 53% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£15K£31K£46K£61K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

344

Top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

53%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

18%

  • Maybelline39%
  • e.l.f.11%
  • Technic10%
  • L'Oreal Paris9%
  • Rimmel8%
  • Essence Cosmetics5%

Brown Mascara demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume573KCVR10.7%Products31Brands15Top 5 Brands77%OOS Rate0.3%Rating4.2★Reviews15,276Avg BSR#72
18K13KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Top Brown Mascara search terms shoppers use

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

  • brown mascara333K/yr
  • mascara brown47K/yr
  • brown waterproof mascara32K/yr
  • brown mascara waterproof31K/yr
  • waterproof mascara brown17K/yr
  • waterproof brown mascara16K/yr
  • brown mascara for older women13K/yr
  • maybelline brown mascara11K/yr
  • dark brown mascara10K/yr
  • maybelline mascara brown10K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Mascara

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

83% of reviews
Eyelash Quality43%

Leaves lovely eyelashs

Value For Money9%

Good for the money

Color7%

Looks natural

Quality-Overall7%

Good quality and arrived exactly as described

Ease Of Use4%

Easy to use

What buyers complain about

63% of reviews
Moist/Dry16%

Dried out

Eyelash Quality12%

Heavy and Clumpy on eyelashes

Quality-Overall8%

Average quality

Product Condition8%

Not new

Color4%

Bit dark for me

Brown Mascara return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

25%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Color
25%
2Moist/Dry
20%
3Water Resistance
14%
4Quality-Overall
11%
5Eyeliner Quality
9%

Common Brown Mascara questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Brown Mascara 54/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £382K/yr across 31 tracked products. 3 of 5 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -5.6% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Brown Mascara on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.2× the quietest.