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Light Brown Hair Dye

Fail

Prices span $2.56–$8.94, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Light Brown Hair Dye is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 44% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£209K/yr642K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
25%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 186 sellers

Flapen Score

Light Brown Hair Dye against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Light Brown Hair Dye market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Light Brown Hair Dye 642K times last year and spent an estimated £209K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 642K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £209K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
642K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.1%
Conversion, latest week
5.9%
Market size, estimated
£209Ka year
Peak month
August1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
light brown hair dye174K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.50.

Listings sell for £5.50 on average, from £2.56 to £8.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £5.50 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.50under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.56–£8.94
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% 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 #46 within Hair Colour. It carries 7,922 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#46in Hair Colour
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,922per listing
Listings tracked
71

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 69 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
69 months

Products

Top Light Brown Hair Dye 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 20, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 25% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£4K£8K£13K£17K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

186

Est. top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

25%

Top 20: 62%

Open market

4%

  • Clairol66%
  • Garnier16%
  • Olia6%
  • L'Oreal Paris4%
  • Schwarzkopf3%
  • Revlon3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 4%)

Demand

Light Brown Hair Dye search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Light Brown Hair Dye search terms shoppers use

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

  • light brown hair dye174K/yr
  • nice and easy hair dye131K/yr
  • clairol nice n easy hair dye79K/yr
  • light brown hair dye permanent55K/yr
  • medium brown hair dye47K/yr
  • hair dye light brown23K/yr
  • clairol hair dye21K/yr
  • nice n easy hair dye22K/yr
  • clairol17K/yr
  • medium brown hair dye permanent15K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Light Brown Hair Dye

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Color”
36%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Not bright”
A buyer, on “Color”36% 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 Light Brown Hair Dye 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