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Lipstick

Fail

Prices span $2.59–$15.48, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Lipstick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 44% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£286K/yr2.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
36%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 385 sellers

Flapen Score

Lipstick against its category

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

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

Market

The Lipstick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Lipstick 2.3M times last year and spent an estimated £286K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% 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 £286K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
£286Ka year
Peak month
December1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
lipstick949K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.09.

Listings sell for £5.09 on average, from £2.59 to £15.48. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £5.09 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.09under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.59–£15.48
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

54% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Make-up. It carries 11,223 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
54%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.9%
Average rank
#33in Make-up
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
11,223per listing
Listings tracked
48

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 45 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Lipstick 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 36% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

385

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

36%

Top 20: 71%

Open market

12%

  • Brand 133%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 65%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 12%)

Demand

Lipstick search demand

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

70K50KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Lipstick search terms shoppers use

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

  • lipstick949K/yr
  • lipstick long lasting192K/yr
  • rimmel lipstick153K/yr
  • nude lipstick136K/yr
  • revlon lipsticks109K/yr
  • long lasting lipstick77K/yr
  • lipsticks91K/yr
  • lipsticks for older women79K/yr
  • matte lipstick82K/yr
  • max factor lipstick62K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lipstick

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

43%of positive reviews mention “Color”
23%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.3%of orders come back
“Colour not as expected”
A buyer, on “Color”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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lipstick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.