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Lip Gloss

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $7.8M a year here. But the average product has 22,016 reviews to catch up to, so Lip Gloss 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
$7.8M/yr21.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
29%top-5 click share · 25 brands · 276 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Gloss against its category

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

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

Market

The Lip Gloss market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lip Gloss 21.1M times last year and spent an estimated $7.8M. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 21.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $7.8M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
21.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.7%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
$7.8Ma year
Peak month
December2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
lip gloss9.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.58.

Listings sell for $10.58 on average, from $2.25 to $31.38. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At $10.58 that is $85K to $106K a year per listing.

Average price
$10.58under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.25–$31.38
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
$85K–$106K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #72 within Lips. It carries 22,016 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.3%
Average rank
#72in Lips
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
22,016per listing
Listings tracked
64

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 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
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Lip Gloss 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 only 29% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

25 falling

Sellers

276

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

29%

Top 20: 61%

Open market

29%

  • Brand 135%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Lip Gloss search demand

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

800K600KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Lip Gloss search terms shoppers use

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

  • lip gloss9.4M/yr
  • lip oil1.8M/yr
  • elf lip gloss1.5M/yr
  • fenty beauty1.1M/yr
  • lipgloss821K/yr
  • lip gloss for women695K/yr
  • lip gloss set995K/yr
  • gloss478K/yr
  • elf lip424K/yr
  • elf lip oil682K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Gloss

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Color”
10%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.8%of orders come back
“Too dark”
A buyer, on “Color”10% 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 Lip Gloss questions

Answered from the same tracked data.