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Hair Dye

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $6.3M a year here. But the average product has 26,503 reviews to catch up to, so Hair Dye is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 4% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +15 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$6.3M/yr14.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
27%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 193 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Dye against its category

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

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Dye market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair Dye 14.4M times last year and spent an estimated $6.3M. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 14.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $6.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
14.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.3%
Conversion, latest week
3.4%
Market size, estimated
$6.3Ma year
Peak month
February1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
hair dye4.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.89.

Listings sell for $12.89 on average, from $4.47 to $33.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500K to 600K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At $12.89 that is $64K to $77K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.89under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.47–$33.85
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
500K–600K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
$64K–$77K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #29 within Hair Coloring Products. It carries 26,503 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.2%
Average rank
#29in Hair Coloring Products
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
26,503per listing
Listings tracked
87

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 66 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
66 months

Products

Top Hair Dye products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 13, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 27% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$125K$250K$375K$500K1K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

27 rising

Sellers

193

Est. top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 97%

Est. top-5 click share

27%

Top 20: 58%

Open market

22%

  • L'Oreal Paris33%
  • Garnier16%
  • REVLON10%
  • Clairol7%
  • Schwarzkopf6%
  • COLORCHARM6%

Demand

Hair Dye search demand

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

350K250KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Hair Dye search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair dye4.0M/yr
  • hair color1.4M/yr
  • black hair dye1.5M/yr
  • hair color for women1.2M/yr
  • loreal hair color838K/yr
  • semi permanent hair color673K/yr
  • brown hair dye649K/yr
  • dark brown hair dye568K/yr
  • temporary hair dye393K/yr
  • demi permanent hair color387K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Dye

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Color”
24%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.8%of orders come back
“color not as described”
A buyer, on “Color”24% 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 Dye questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data