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Foundation Stick

Fail

Prices span $4.26–$6.13, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Foundation Stick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
30
30 / 100
Ranks 2,429 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −17 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£31K/yr149K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 107 sellers

Flapen Score

Foundation Stick against its category

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

30Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Foundation Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Foundation Stick 149K times last year and spent an estimated £31K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 30 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 149K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £31K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
149K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
£31Ka year
Peak month
February1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
foundation stick72K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.29.

Listings sell for £5.29 on average, from £4.26 to £6.13. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £5.29 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.29under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.26–£6.13
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

42% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #199 within Make-up. It carries 8,791 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
42%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#199in Make-up
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,791per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are young.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Foundation 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 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

107

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 171%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Foundation Stick search demand

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

5K4KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Foundation Stick search terms shoppers use

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

  • foundation stick72K/yr
  • max factor pan stick16K/yr
  • stick foundation15K/yr
  • pan stick max factor12K/yr
  • foundation stick full coverage8K/yr
  • pan stick7K/yr
  • dior foundation stick4K/yr
  • panstick max factor3K/yr
  • max factor pan stick 13 nouveau beige5K/yr
  • stick foundation makeup4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Foundation Stick

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Coverage”
29%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.1%of orders come back
“I discovered that the foundation stick had a significant crack running through the foundation stick”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”29% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Foundation Stick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.