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Purple Lipstick

Maybe

An estimated 1.0% of orders come back. But the average product has 17,917 reviews to catch up to, so Purple Lipstick is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 26% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$87K/yr256K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 162 sellers

Flapen Score

Purple Lipstick against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Purple Lipstick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Purple Lipstick 256K times last year and spent an estimated $87K. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 256K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $87K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
256K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.0%
Conversion, latest week
4.6%
Market size, estimated
$87Ka year
Peak month
October4.3× the quietest month
Top search term
purple lipstick166K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $7.42.

Listings sell for $7.42 on average, from $1.04 to $20.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $7.42 that is $742 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$7.42under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.04–$20.86
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$742–$2K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #184 within Lips. It carries 17,917 reviews at 4.21 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.4%
Average rank
#184in Lips
Average rating
4.21 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
17,917per listing
Listings tracked
57

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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 65 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
65 months

Products

Top Purple Lipstick 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 34% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

24 falling

Sellers

162

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 69%

Open market

39%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Purple Lipstick search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.3×

Search terms

Top Purple Lipstick search terms shoppers use

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

  • purple lipstick166K/yr
  • dark purple lipstick31K/yr
  • purple lipstick for women15K/yr
  • purple matte lipstick10K/yr
  • violet lipstick7K/yr
  • lipstick purple5K/yr
  • purple lipstick long lasting5K/yr
  • purple lipstick matte5K/yr
  • matte purple lipstick5K/yr
  • deep purple lipstick5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Purple Lipstick

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

48%of positive reviews mention “Color”
28%of negative reviews mention “Color”
1.0%of orders come back
“Terrible color”
A buyer, on “Color”28% 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 Purple Lipstick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.