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Lip Makeup

Fail

Demand is soft, at -16.0% this quarter, so Lip Makeup is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 5,071 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · on the category median
Market size
$355K/yr1.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 527 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Makeup against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Makeup market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lip Makeup 1.2M times last year and spent an estimated $355K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $355K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.0%
Conversion, latest week
2.8%
Market size, estimated
$355Ka year
Top search term
lip makeup421K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.66.

Listings sell for $10.66 on average, from $1.06 to $25.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $10.66 that is $5K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$10.66under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.06–$25.89
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$8K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

82% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #132 within Lips. It carries 13,754 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
82%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
1.3%
Average rank
#132in Lips
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
13,754per listing
Listings tracked
50

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Lip Makeup 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 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

18 falling

Sellers

527

Top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 71%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 140%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (12 brands, 14%)

Demand

Lip Makeup search demand

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

35K25KSpike '26OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Lip Makeup search terms shoppers use

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

  • lip makeup421K/yr
  • burts bees lip shimmer151K/yr
  • lip color66K/yr
  • tinted lip moisturizer63K/yr
  • burts bees lipstick58K/yr
  • morphe lipstick33K/yr
  • maybelline lifter glaze93K/yr
  • matte lip balm33K/yr
  • burts bees cocoa lip shimmer53K/yr
  • maybelline glaze oil lip balm25K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Makeup

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

35%of positive reviews mention “Color”
20%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.9%of orders come back
“Color is different”
A buyer, on “Color”20% 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 Makeup questions

Answered from the same tracked data.