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Compact Makeup

Maybe

An estimated 1.0% of orders come back. But the average product has 13,237 reviews to catch up to, so Compact Makeup is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 34% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$121K/yr235K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 204 sellers

Flapen Score

Compact Makeup against its category

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

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Compact Makeup market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Compact Makeup 235K times last year and spent an estimated $121K. The top 5 brands take 67% of clicks. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 235K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $121K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
235K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.4%
Conversion, latest week
5.0%
Market size, estimated
$121Ka year
Peak month
July1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
oil control powder29K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.34.

Listings sell for $10.34 on average, from $3.34 to $25.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $10.34 that is $3K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$10.34under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.34–$25.80
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$5K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #76 within Face. It carries 13,237 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#76in Face
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
13,237per listing
Listings tracked
53

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 59 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
59 months

Products

Top Compact Makeup 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 only 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

24 rising

Sellers

204

Top-5 brand share

67%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

29%

  • Brand 127%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Compact Makeup search demand

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

6K4KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Compact Makeup search terms shoppers use

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

  • oil control powder29K/yr
  • powder concealer29K/yr
  • elf pressed powder24K/yr
  • translucent pressed powder19K/yr
  • oil absorbing powder for face12K/yr
  • makeup compact14K/yr
  • compact makeup15K/yr
  • rimmel powder12K/yr
  • elf compact powder6K/yr
  • rimmel stay matte powder19K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Compact Makeup

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Color”
1.0%of orders come back
“Color too light”
A buyer, on “Color”11% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Compact Makeup questions

Answered from the same tracked data.