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Premium Beauty

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Premium Beauty is a Fail.

Flapen Score
31
31 / 100
Ranks 10,549 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −17 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$95K/yr208K searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
94%top-5 click share · 2 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Premium Beauty against its category

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

31Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Premium Beauty market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Premium Beauty 208K times last year and spent an estimated $95K. All 2 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Jan–Apr. Flapen scores it 31 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 208K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $95K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
208K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.9%
Conversion, latest week
6.0%
Market size, estimated
$95Ka year
Peak month
January2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
versed lip blush45K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $7.67.

Listings sell for $7.67 on average, from $5.69 to $10.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $7.67 that is $6K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$7.67under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.69–$10.11
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$6K–$8K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% 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 #48 within Lips. It carries 6,914 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#48in Lips
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,914per listing
Listings tracked
7

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 Premium Beauty 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 94% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

2 flat

Sellers

55

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 165%
  • Brand 235%

Demand

Premium Beauty search demand

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

8K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Apr · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Premium Beauty search terms shoppers use

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

  • versed lip blush45K/yr
  • covergirl lip balm22K/yr
  • revlon super lustrous glass shine balm24K/yr
  • covergirl clean fresh tinted lip balm10K/yr
  • revlon glass shine lipstick20K/yr
  • revlon glass shine balm10K/yr
  • covergirl clean fresh16K/yr
  • cover girl clean fresh tinted lip balm6K/yr
  • covergirl tinted lip balm9K/yr
  • cover girl lip balm5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Premium Beauty

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Color”
17%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.9%of orders come back
“Its not the color shown”
A buyer, on “Color”17% 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 Premium Beauty questions

Answered from the same tracked data.