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Hard As Nails

Fail

Prices span $2.76–$8.63, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hard As Nails is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 39% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£62K/yr237K searches / yr
90-day growth
+34.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 84 sellers

Flapen Score

Hard As Nails against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hard As Nails market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hard As Nails 237K times last year and spent an estimated £62K. The top 5 brands take 66% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Oct. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 237K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +34.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £62K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
237K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+34.5%
Conversion, latest week
5.7%
Market size, estimated
£62Ka year
Peak month
October2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
nude nail polish127K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.63.

Listings sell for £4.63 on average, from £2.76 to £8.63. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £4.63 that is £2K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.63under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.76–£8.63
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£3K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

65% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #86 within Manicure & Pedicure. It carries 11,587 reviews at 4.16 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
65%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.2%
Average rank
#86in Manicure & Pedicure
Average rating
4.16 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
11,587per listing
Listings tracked
20

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 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Hard As Nails products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£6K£12K£19K£25K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

84

Est. top-5 brand share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

29%

  • Rimmel38%
  • Sally Hansen10%
  • HUAIAN7%
  • essie7%
  • Maggikey5%
  • Nails Inc5%

Demand

Hard As Nails search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Hard As Nails search terms shoppers use

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

  • nude nail polish127K/yr
  • natural nail polish32K/yr
  • neutral nail polish12K/yr
  • beige nail polish10K/yr
  • nude nail varnish13K/yr
  • nude pink nail polish10K/yr
  • nail polish nude12K/yr
  • natural nail varnish9K/yr
  • natural colour nail polish6K/yr
  • nail polish natural4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hard As Nails

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

42%of positive reviews mention “Color”
26%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.2%of orders come back
“Colour not as described”
A buyer, on “Color”26% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hard As Nails questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data