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Mac Eyeshadow

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Mac Eyeshadow is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 1,964 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −7 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£58K/yr111K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Mac Eyeshadow against its category

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

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mac Eyeshadow market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Mac Eyeshadow 111K times last year and spent an estimated £58K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 111K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £58K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
111K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.8%
Conversion, latest week
3.1%
Market size, estimated
£58Ka year
Peak month
January3.3× the quietest month
Top search term
urban decay eyeshadow56K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £16.92.

Listings sell for £16.92 on average, from £7.05 to £37.08. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £16.92 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£16.92inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.05–£37.08
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 17.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #209 within Make-up. It carries 1,315 reviews at 4.44 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
17.9%
Average rank
#209in Make-up
Average rating
4.44 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,315per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Mac Eyeshadow 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 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

53

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 166%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Mac Eyeshadow search demand

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

8K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.3×

Search terms

Top Mac Eyeshadow search terms shoppers use

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

  • urban decay eyeshadow56K/yr
  • bobbi brown eyeshadow stick17K/yr
  • naked eyeshadow palette15K/yr
  • urban decay eyeshadow palette10K/yr
  • bobbi brown eyeshadow3K/yr
  • urban decay palette6K/yr
  • urban decay naked palette4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mac Eyeshadow

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

45%of positive reviews mention “Color”
12%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.7%of orders come back
“Smaller and no brush”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”12% 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 Mac Eyeshadow questions

Answered from the same tracked data.