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Skin Tone Markers

Fail

Demand is soft, at -12.5% this quarter, so Skin Tone Markers is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 34% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +3 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$270K/yr249K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 70 sellers

Flapen Score

Skin Tone Markers against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Skin Tone Markers is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Skin Tone Markers market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Skin Tone Markers 249K times last year and spent an estimated $270K. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 249K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $270K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
249K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.5%
Conversion, latest week
5.8%
Market size, estimated
$270Ka year
Peak month
December2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
skin tone markers50K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.79.

Listings sell for $18.79 on average, from $4.74 to $79.38. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $18.79 that is $9K to $14K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.79inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.74–$79.38
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$9K–$14K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #180 within Drawing. It carries 3,804 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#180in Drawing
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,804per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

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

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Skin Tone Markers 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 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

70

Top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 149%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 6%)

Demand

Skin Tone Markers search demand

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

10K6KPrime Day '24Spike '24Black Friday '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

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

Search terms

Top Skin Tone Markers search terms shoppers use

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

  • skin tone markers50K/yr
  • skin color markers34K/yr
  • ohuhu skin tone markers30K/yr
  • skin tone alcohol markers27K/yr
  • ohuhu alcohol markers skin tones15K/yr
  • alcohol markers skin tones14K/yr
  • colors of the world markers12K/yr
  • brown alcohol markers10K/yr
  • skin color alcohol markers7K/yr
  • ohuhu skin tone alcohol markers8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Skin Tone Markers

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Color”
29%of negative reviews mention “Color”
1.1%of orders come back
“Just wrong set of colors for me”
A buyer, on “Color”29% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Skin Tone Markers questions

Answered from the same tracked data.