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False Nails

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But prices span $2.84–$12.09, mostly outside the sweet spot, so False Nails is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 9% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +11 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£948K/yr6.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
+6.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 76 sellers

Flapen Score

False Nails against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, False Nails is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The False Nails market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for False Nails 6.6M times last year and spent an estimated £948K. The top 5 brands take 61% of clicks. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 6.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +6.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £948K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
6.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+6.5%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
£948Ka year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
press on nails1.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.67.

Listings sell for £5.67 on average, from £2.84 to £12.09. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £5.67 that is £17K to £23K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.67under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.84–£12.09
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£17K–£23K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

92% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #43 within Manicure & Pedicure. It carries 5,300 reviews at 4.12 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
92%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.3%
Average rank
#43in Manicure & Pedicure
Average rating
4.12 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,300per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 12 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

12 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 28 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top False Nails 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 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

27 falling

Sellers

76

Top-5 brand share

61%

Top 20: 93%

Top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 78%

Open market

35%

  • Brand 123%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

False Nails search demand

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

175K125KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top False Nails search terms shoppers use

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

  • press on nails1.5M/yr
  • false nails1.0M/yr
  • nails923K/yr
  • fake nails661K/yr
  • stick on nails503K/yr
  • nails press ons370K/yr
  • press on nails short187K/yr
  • false nails with glue200K/yr
  • french tip false nails159K/yr
  • short false nails150K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about False Nails

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
23%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.4%of orders come back
“Glue was not great”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”23% 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 False Nails questions

Answered from the same tracked data.