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Elf Highlighter Powder

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Buyers convert on only 1.4% of searches, so Elf Highlighter Powder is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 7,858 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −6 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$80K/yr228K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
59%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 134 sellers

Flapen Score

Elf Highlighter Powder against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Elf Highlighter Powder is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Elf Highlighter Powder market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Elf Highlighter Powder 228K times last year and spent an estimated $80K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 228K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $80K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
228K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.9%
Conversion, latest week
1.4%
Market size, estimated
$80Ka year
Top search term
rare beauty highlighter166K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $25.42.

Listings sell for $25.42 on average, from $6.81 to $59.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $25.42 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$25.42inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.81–$59.94
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 81% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #258 within Face. It carries 3,507 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
81%
Out of stock, average day
9.5%
Average rank
#258in Face
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,507per listing
Listings tracked
21

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 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
7
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Elf Highlighter Powder 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

134

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 157%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 5%)

Demand

Elf Highlighter Powder search demand

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

5K3KSpike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0× · 8 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Elf Highlighter Powder search terms shoppers use

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

  • rare beauty highlighter166K/yr
  • iluminador rare beauty7K/yr
  • rare beauty positive light liquid luminizer6K/yr
  • rare beauty positive light silky touch highlighter3K/yr
  • rare beauty highlighter liquid3K/yr
  • highlighter rare beauty5K/yr
  • elf halo glow silky powder highlighter4K/yr
  • rare beauty liquid highlighter6K/yr
  • rare beauty liquid luminizer3K/yr
  • rare beauty iluminador4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Elf Highlighter Powder

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

33%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
13%of negative reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
1.4%of orders come back
“No glow”
A buyer, on “Brightness/Shine/Glow”13% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Elf Highlighter Powder questions

Answered from the same tracked data.