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Lip Liner

Maybe

An estimated 0.7% of orders come back. But the average product has 13,851 reviews to catch up to, so Lip Liner is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 14% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +9 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$2.9M/yr9.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 19 brands · 127 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Liner against its category

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

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Liner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lip Liner 9.0M times last year and spent an estimated $2.9M. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 9.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $2.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
9.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.3%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
$2.9Ma year
Peak month
November1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
lip liner4.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.03.

Listings sell for $8.03 on average, from $1.05 to $24.52. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 300K to 400K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At $8.03 that is $80K to $100K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.03under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.05–$24.52
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
300K–400K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
$80K–$100K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

72% 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 #22 within Lips. It carries 13,851 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#22in Lips
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
13,851per listing
Listings tracked
32

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 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
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Lip Liner 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 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$147K$294K$440K$587K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

19 rising

Sellers

127

Est. top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

22%

  • NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP32%
  • e.l.f.20%
  • REVLON11%
  • L.A. COLORS6%
  • wet n wild5%
  • Generic5%

Demand

Lip Liner search demand

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

250K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Lip Liner search terms shoppers use

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

  • lip liner4.6M/yr
  • nyx lip liner1.1M/yr
  • brown lip liner542K/yr
  • lip liners396K/yr
  • lip liner set384K/yr
  • mac lip liner254K/yr
  • lip liner pencil381K/yr
  • lip pencil212K/yr
  • lipliner193K/yr
  • revlon lip liner127K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Liner

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

36%of positive reviews mention “Color”
22%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.7%of orders come back
“Way Darker”
A buyer, on “Color”22% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lip Liner 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