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Contour Stick

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -20.4% this quarter, so Contour Stick is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 34% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +3 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£196K/yr736K searches / yr
90-day growth
-20.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 186 sellers

Flapen Score

Contour Stick against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Contour Stick is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Contour Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Contour Stick 736K times last year and spent an estimated £196K. The top 5 brands take 71% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 736K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £196K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
736K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-20.4%
Conversion, latest week
4.4%
Market size, estimated
£196Ka year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
contour stick387K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.09.

Listings sell for £6.09 on average, from £2.37 to £20.10. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £6.09 that is £3K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.09under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.37–£20.10
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£5K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

64% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #48 within Make-up. It carries 4,572 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.2%
Average rank
#48in Make-up
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,572per listing
Listings tracked
42

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Contour Stick 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 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

186

Top-5 brand share

71%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

24%

  • Brand 118%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 413%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Contour Stick search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Contour Stick search terms shoppers use

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

  • contour stick387K/yr
  • contour210K/yr
  • cream contour34K/yr
  • nyx contour stick15K/yr
  • contour stick cream6K/yr
  • nyx wonder stick9K/yr
  • cream contour stick7K/yr
  • contouring stick8K/yr
  • contor7K/yr
  • nyx contour6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Contour Stick

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Colour not the same”
A buyer, on “Color”30% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Contour Stick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.