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Gel Eyeliner

Fail

Prices span $2.87–$9.23, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Gel Eyeliner is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 1,759 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£94K/yr247K searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
57%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 233 sellers

Flapen Score

Gel Eyeliner against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Gel Eyeliner is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Gel Eyeliner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Gel Eyeliner 247K times last year and spent an estimated £94K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 247K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +4.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £94K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
247K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.1%
Conversion, latest week
7.8%
Market size, estimated
£94Ka year
Peak month
December1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
gel eyeliner60K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.91.

Listings sell for £4.91 on average, from £2.87 to £9.23. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £4.91 that is £4K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.91under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.87–£9.23
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£5K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

40% 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 #42 within Make-up. It carries 8,398 reviews at 4.32 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
40%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#42in Make-up
Average rating
4.32 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,398per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 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
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Gel Eyeliner 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 57% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

233

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

57%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 183%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 42%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Gel Eyeliner search demand

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

6K4KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Gel Eyeliner search terms shoppers use

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

  • gel eyeliner60K/yr
  • maybelline eyeliner46K/yr
  • maybelline tattoo eyeliner34K/yr
  • loreal eyeliner19K/yr
  • gel eyeliner pencil9K/yr
  • tattoo eyeliner9K/yr
  • waterproof gel eyeliner6K/yr
  • maybelline gel eyeliner8K/yr
  • maybelline tattoo liner8K/yr
  • gel liner7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Gel Eyeliner

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Eyeliner Quality”
13%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“can never get a good defined tip point to it because it constantly breaks”
A buyer, on “Durability”13% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Gel Eyeliner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.