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Lip Liner

Fail

Prices span $1.67–$11.60, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Lip Liner is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,867 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£336K/yr1.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
76%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Liner against its category

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

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Liner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Lip Liner 1.5M times last year and spent an estimated £336K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £336K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.2%
Conversion, latest week
5.2%
Market size, estimated
£336Ka year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
lip liner814K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.39.

Listings sell for £4.39 on average, from £1.67 to £11.60. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £4.39 that is £9K to £11K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.39under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.67–£11.60
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£11K
Returns
0.2%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 #9 within Make-up. It carries 10,554 reviews at 4.33 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
#9in Make-up
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
10,554per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Lip Liner 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 76% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

48

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 163%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 5%)

Demand

Lip Liner search demand

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

40K30KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Lip Liner search terms shoppers use

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

  • lip liner814K/yr
  • lip liner set107K/yr
  • rimmel lip liner81K/yr
  • lip liners80K/yr
  • lipliner61K/yr
  • elf lip liner59K/yr
  • lip pencil45K/yr
  • rimmel cappuccino lip liner38K/yr
  • nude lip liner34K/yr
  • mac lip liner31K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Liner

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Color”
27%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.2%of orders come back
“Does not last”
A buyer, on “Durability”27% 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 Liner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.