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Black Hair Dye

Fail

Prices span $4.65–$15.94, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Black Hair Dye is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 6,474 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$528K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 109 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Hair Dye against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Black Hair Dye is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Hair Dye market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Hair Dye 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated $528K. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $528K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.0%
Conversion, latest week
4.4%
Market size, estimated
$528Ka year
Peak month
August2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
revlon hair dye283K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.07.

Listings sell for $11.07 on average, from $4.65 to $15.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $11.07 that is $14K to $17K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.07under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.65–$15.94
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$14K–$17K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #113 within Hair Coloring Products. It carries 8,754 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#113in Hair Coloring Products
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,754per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Black Hair Dye products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 13, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$53K$106K$158K$211K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

109

Est. top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

6%

  • REVLON74%
  • Schwarzkopf6%
  • L'Oreal Paris4%
  • SoftSheen4%
  • Garnier4%
  • Creme of Nature2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 6%)

Demand

Black Hair Dye search demand

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

60K40KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Black Hair Dye search terms shoppers use

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

  • revlon hair dye283K/yr
  • jet black hair dye203K/yr
  • revlon colorsilk hair color125K/yr
  • revlon hair color116K/yr
  • jet black hair dye permanent44K/yr
  • black hair45K/yr
  • revlon colorsilk39K/yr
  • revlon black hair dye35K/yr
  • black permanent hair dye33K/yr
  • revlon hair color for women27K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Hair Dye

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Color”
23%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.3%of orders come back
“color is off”
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.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Hair Dye questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data