Lipstick
FailPrices span $2.59–$15.48, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Lipstick is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 48 / 100Top 44% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +1 vs the category median of 4748
- 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.
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.
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.
“Colour not as expected”
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
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FAQ
Common Lipstick questions
Answered from the same tracked data.









