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Hair Scissors

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $6.5M a year here. But demand is soft, at -9.6% this quarter, so Hair Scissors is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 8% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +12 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$6.5M/yr5.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Scissors against its category

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

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Scissors market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair Scissors 5.0M times last year and spent an estimated $6.5M. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $6.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.6%
Conversion, latest week
11.5%
Market size, estimated
$6.5Ma year
Peak month
January1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
hair scissors1.2M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.41.

Listings sell for $11.41 on average, from $3.86 to $30.33. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500K to 600K a year. The average listing sells 25,000 to 30,000 of them. At $11.41 that is $285K to $342K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.41under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.86–$30.33
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
500K–600K
Units per listing a year
25,000–30,000
Revenue per listing a year
$285K–$342K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #15 within Hair Cutting Tools. It carries 11,560 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.7%
Average rank
#15in Hair Cutting Tools
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
11,560per listing
Listings tracked
24

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 59 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
59 months

Products

Top Hair Scissors 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

48

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

33%

  • Brand 123%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Hair Scissors search demand

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

100K60KPrime Day '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Hair Scissors search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair scissors1.2M/yr
  • hair cutting scissors1.1M/yr
  • tijeras para cortar cabello279K/yr
  • hair cutting shears307K/yr
  • hair shears308K/yr
  • barber scissors290K/yr
  • shears237K/yr
  • haircut scissors221K/yr
  • shears for hair cutting191K/yr
  • scissors to cut hair125K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Scissors

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.9%of orders come back
“Cheap quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Scissors questions

Answered from the same tracked data.