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Hair Dye

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But prices span $2.47–$9.18, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Dye is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 22% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£931K/yr4.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 194 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Dye against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Dye market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Dye 4.6M times last year and spent an estimated £931K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 4.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -1.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £931K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
£931Ka year
Peak month
April1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
hair dye1.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.81.

Listings sell for £5.81 on average, from £2.47 to £9.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £5.81 that is £12K to £15K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.81under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.47–£9.18
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£12K–£15K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #19 within Hair Colour. It carries 8,591 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.2%
Average rank
#19in Hair Colour
Average rating
4.39 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,591per listing
Listings tracked
66

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 65 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
65 months

Products

Top Hair Dye 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 34% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

194

Top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 67%

Open market

10%

  • Brand 135%
  • Brand 225%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 10%)

Demand

Hair Dye search demand

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

100K60KPrime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Hair Dye search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair dye1.5M/yr
  • brown hair dye419K/yr
  • hair colour372K/yr
  • semi permanent hair dye347K/yr
  • hair dye permanent286K/yr
  • garnier hair dye245K/yr
  • dark brown hair dye240K/yr
  • light brown hair dye174K/yr
  • garnier good hair dye105K/yr
  • nice and easy hair dye131K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Dye

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Color”
32%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Wrong colour”
A buyer, on “Color”32% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Dye questions

Answered from the same tracked data.