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Makeup Brushes

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -12.1% this quarter, so Makeup Brushes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 22% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.3M/yr2.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 46 sellers

Flapen Score

Makeup Brushes against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Makeup Brushes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Makeup Brushes 2.9M times last year and spent an estimated £1.3M. The top 5 brands take 69% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.1%
Conversion, latest week
5.5%
Market size, estimated
£1.3Ma year
Peak month
December2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
makeup brushes1.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.41.

Listings sell for £8.41 on average, from £3.29 to £19.91. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £8.41 that is £42K to £50K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.41under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.29–£19.91
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
£42K–£50K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

72% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #27 within Tools & Accessories. It carries 9,140 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.0%
Average rank
#27in Tools & Accessories
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
9,140per listing
Listings tracked
25

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 36 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
36 months

Products

Top Makeup Brushes 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 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

17 flat

Sellers

46

Top-5 brand share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

26%

  • Brand 125%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Makeup Brushes search demand

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

125K75KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Makeup Brushes search terms shoppers use

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

  • makeup brushes1.4M/yr
  • make up brushes659K/yr
  • makeup brush set222K/yr
  • makeup brush99K/yr
  • make up brush set106K/yr
  • make up brush60K/yr
  • make-up brushes & tools67K/yr
  • make up brushes set56K/yr
  • brush set44K/yr
  • makeup brushes sets53K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Makeup Brushes

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Bad quality brushes”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”18% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Makeup Brushes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.