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Hair

Fail

The top 5 products take 100% of clicks, so Hair is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 9,296 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −10 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$491K/yr5.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
100%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 6 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair 5.3M times last year and spent an estimated $491K. All 4 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Oct–Dec. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $491K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.5%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
$491Ka year
Peak month
July2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
hair2.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.72.

Listings sell for $21.72 on average, from $10.09 to $54.41. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $21.72 that is $22K to $27K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.72inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$10.09–$54.41
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$22K–$27K
Returns
2.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% 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 #30 within Hair Bonnets. It carries 8,110 reviews at 4.30 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#30in Hair Bonnets
Average rating
4.30 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,110per listing
Listings tracked
4

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Hair 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 100% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

6

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 186%
  • Brand 25%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 45%

Demand

Hair search demand

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

500K300KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug, Oct, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Hair search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair2.6M/yr
  • beauty tools + accessories340K/yr
  • glow up essentials women241K/yr
  • beauty tools324K/yr
  • products56K/yr
  • women beauty accessories56K/yr
  • beauty accessories38K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair

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

11%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
9%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.0%of orders come back
“Way too large”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”9% 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 Hair questions

Answered from the same tracked data.