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Hair Braider

Fail

Demand is soft, at -67.5% this quarter, so Hair Braider 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
$279K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-67.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Braider against its category

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

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

Market

The Hair Braider market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair Braider 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated $279K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar–Apr. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -67.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $279K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-67.5%
Conversion, latest week
0.8%
Market size, estimated
$279Ka year
Peak month
March6.4× the quietest month
Top search term
hair braiding machine301K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $30.60.

Listings sell for $30.60 on average, from $5.98 to $135.57. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $30.60 that is $8K to $15K a year per listing.

Average price
$30.60inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.98–$135.57
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$8K–$15K
Returns
4.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,396 within Hair Rollers. It carries 391 reviews at 3.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#1,396in Hair Rollers
Average rating
3.33 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
391per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 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 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Hair Braider 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 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

21

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Brand 127%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 16%)

Demand

Hair Braider search demand

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

100K60KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Mar, Apr · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.4×

Search terms

Top Hair Braider search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair braiding machine301K/yr
  • braiding machine215K/yr
  • braid machine76K/yr
  • hair braider90K/yr
  • automatic hair braider56K/yr
  • hair braiding machine for adults41K/yr
  • hair twister50K/yr
  • hair braider machine47K/yr
  • braiding machine for black hair23K/yr
  • maquina para hacer trenzas de pelo23K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Braider

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Ease Of Use”
18%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
4.1%of orders come back
“would not function properly”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Braider questions

Answered from the same tracked data.