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Highlighting Cap

Fail

Prices span $3.47–$8.50, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Highlighting Cap is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 39% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£79K/yr172K searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 20 sellers

Flapen Score

Highlighting Cap against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Highlighting Cap is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Highlighting Cap market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Highlighting Cap 172K times last year and spent an estimated £79K. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 172K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +4.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £79K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
172K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.3%
Conversion, latest week
8.9%
Market size, estimated
£79Ka year
Peak month
July1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
highlighting cap65K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.17.

Listings sell for £5.17 on average, from £3.47 to £8.50. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £5.17 that is £4K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.17under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.47–£8.50
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£5K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Hair Colour. It carries 416 reviews at 3.72 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.1%
Average rank
#33in Hair Colour
Average rating
3.72 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
416per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 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 29 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
29 months

Products

Top Highlighting Cap 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 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

20

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

24%

  • Brand 124%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 411%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Highlighting Cap search demand

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

5K4KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Highlighting Cap search terms shoppers use

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

  • highlighting cap65K/yr
  • highlight cap31K/yr
  • highlight cap and hook kit12K/yr
  • hair dye cap11K/yr
  • hair highlighting cap10K/yr
  • highlights cap8K/yr
  • streaking cap8K/yr
  • highlighting cap and hook kit7K/yr
  • bleach cap5K/yr
  • hair cap for highlights6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Highlighting Cap

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“FAR TOO BIG”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”23% 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 Highlighting Cap questions

Answered from the same tracked data.