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Hair Clips

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $2.27–$10.61, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Clips is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 3% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +16 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.0M/yr5.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+11.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
28%top-5 click share · 55 brands · 85 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Clips against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Hair Clips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Clips market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Clips 5.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.0M. The top 5 brands take 41% of clicks. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+11.1%
Conversion, latest week
3.4%
Market size, estimated
£1.0Ma year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
hair clips2.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.10.

Listings sell for £5.10 on average, from £2.27 to £10.61. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £5.10 that is £8K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.10under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.27–£10.61
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
£8K–£10K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

82% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #31 within Hair Styling Accessories. It carries 1,601 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
82%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
7.5%
Average rank
#31in Hair Styling Accessories
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,601per listing
Listings tracked
71

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

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

Products

Top Hair Clips 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 only 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

55 falling

Sellers

85

Top-5 brand share

41%

Top 20: 76%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 65%

Open market

56%

  • Brand 117%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Hair Clips search demand

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

125K75KHoliday '24Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Hair Clips search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair clips2.1M/yr
  • hair accessories for women582K/yr
  • claw clips602K/yr
  • hair clips women430K/yr
  • hair accessories407K/yr
  • hair clip296K/yr
  • claw clip288K/yr
  • hair claw clips190K/yr
  • claw clips for thick hair136K/yr
  • small hair clips108K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Clips

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
15%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.3%of orders come back
“Broke after two uses”
A buyer, on “Durability”15% 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 Hair Clips questions

Answered from the same tracked data.