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Contour Palette

Maybe

An estimated 1.3% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -16.2% this quarter, so Contour Palette is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 26% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$418K/yr1.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 81 sellers

Flapen Score

Contour Palette against its category

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

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

Market

The Contour Palette market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Contour Palette 1.0M times last year and spent an estimated $418K. The top 5 brands take 71% of clicks. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $418K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.1%
Market size, estimated
$418Ka year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
contour palette626K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.82.

Listings sell for $12.82 on average, from $3.83 to $43.71. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $12.82 that is $10K to $13K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.82under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.83–$43.71
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$13K
Returns
1.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #81 within Face. It carries 7,267 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#81in Face
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
7,267per listing
Listings tracked
40

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Contour Palette 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 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

22 falling

Sellers

81

Top-5 brand share

71%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 79%

Open market

26%

  • Brand 142%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Contour Palette search demand

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

35K25KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Contour Palette search terms shoppers use

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

  • contour palette626K/yr
  • elf contour181K/yr
  • contour kit52K/yr
  • elf contour palette27K/yr
  • contour pallete17K/yr
  • contour set15K/yr
  • smashbox contour palette14K/yr
  • contouring palette20K/yr
  • contour elf11K/yr
  • contour wand10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Contour Palette

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Color”
23%of negative reviews mention “Color”
1.3%of orders come back
“Colors are dull”
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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Contour Palette questions

Answered from the same tracked data.