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Cheap Mascara

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Cheap Mascara is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 7,421 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$128K/yr160K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Cheap Mascara against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Cheap Mascara is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cheap Mascara market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cheap Mascara 160K times last year and spent an estimated $128K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep–Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 160K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $128K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
160K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.8%
Market size, estimated
$128Ka year
Peak month
November3.6× the quietest month
Top search term
wet n wild mascara32K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.80.

Listings sell for $11.80 on average, from $3.05 to $34.50. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $11.80 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.80under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.05–$34.50
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 21.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #311 within Eyes. It carries 28,418 reviews at 4.29 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
21.0%
Average rank
#311in Eyes
Average rating
4.29 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
28,418per listing
Listings tracked
17

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 48 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
48 months

Products

Top Cheap Mascara 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 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

6 flat

Sellers

48

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 165%
  • Brand 221%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 42%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Cheap Mascara search demand

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

13K8KPrime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep, Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.6×

Search terms

Top Cheap Mascara search terms shoppers use

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

  • wet n wild mascara32K/yr
  • wet and wild mascara19K/yr
  • mascara for kids17K/yr
  • kids mascara14K/yr
  • petite n pretty12K/yr
  • mascara wet n wild5K/yr
  • wet n wild mascara waterproof6K/yr
  • petite n pretty makeup for kids8K/yr
  • petite and pretty makeup for kids12K/yr
  • petite and pretty makeup7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cheap Mascara

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

48%of positive reviews mention “Eyelash Quality”
18%of negative reviews mention “Eyelash Quality”
0.3%of orders come back
“It does make eyelashes look false”
A buyer, on “Eyelash Quality”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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cheap Mascara questions

Answered from the same tracked data.