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Lip Gloss

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But products sell for $5.50 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Lip Gloss is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 26% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£509K/yr3.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 266 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Gloss against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Lip Gloss is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Gloss market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Lip Gloss 3.2M times last year and spent an estimated £509K. The top 5 brands take 72% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £509K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.5%
Conversion, latest week
2.9%
Market size, estimated
£509Ka year
Peak month
December2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
lip gloss1.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.50.

Listings sell for £5.50 on average, from £1.27 to £18.07. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At £5.50 that is £6K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.50under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.27–£18.07
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£7K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #45 within Make-up. It carries 10,793 reviews at 4.34 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#45in Make-up
Average rating
4.34 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
10,793per listing
Listings tracked
58

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 14 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

14 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 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
14
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
42 months

Products

Top Lip Gloss 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 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

266

Top-5 brand share

72%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 70%

Open market

23%

  • Brand 125%
  • Brand 221%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Lip Gloss search demand

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

100K60KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Lip Gloss search terms shoppers use

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

  • lip gloss1.4M/yr
  • lip oil428K/yr
  • lipgloss189K/yr
  • lip gloss set191K/yr
  • elf lip gloss122K/yr
  • lip135K/yr
  • lip glosses75K/yr
  • elf lip oil83K/yr
  • nyx lip gloss69K/yr
  • lips80K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Gloss

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Color”
13%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Misleading colour”
A buyer, on “Color”13% 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 Lip Gloss questions

Answered from the same tracked data.