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Retractable Makeup Brush

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 50% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -6.8% this quarter, so Retractable Makeup Brush 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
$176K/yr296K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 25 brands · 52 sellers

Flapen Score

Retractable Makeup Brush against its category

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

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

Market

The Retractable Makeup Brush market on Amazon at a glance

Retractable Makeup Brush is a $176K a year market on Amazon United States, with 296K searches a year. The top 5 brands take 50% of clicks. Demand peaks in May. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

Demand comes close.

Shoppers search 296K times a year and 7.0% buy. Search demand moved -6.8% in 90 days, so the $176K a year market is softening.

Search volume
296K
Search growth, 90 days
-6.8%
Conversion
7.0%
Market size
$176K

02 · Money

The money is there.

Shoppers bought 20K to 25K units at $8.44 on average, 250 to 500 per product. Units times price is $169K to $211K a year.

Units sold
20K–25K
Units per product
250–500
Average price
$8.44
Units × price
$169K–$211K

03 · Shelf

Brands here are settling in.

The average listing ranks #189. 100% of listings ship Prime. 88% of the shelf is sponsored, so budget for ads. The average listing is out of stock 7.1% of the time. The average brand has sold here for 40 months.

Average BSR
#189
Prime
100%
Sponsored
88%
Out of stock
7.1%
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Retractable Makeup Brush products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 40% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$5K$11K$16K$21K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

25 falling

Sellers

52

Top-5 brand share

50%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

43%

  • LAURA GELLER NEW YORK13%
  • Banidy12%
  • DUcare10%
  • ENERGY7%
  • Keriloo7%
  • e.l.f.7%

Demand

Retractable Makeup Brush search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Retractable Makeup Brush search terms shoppers use

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

  • retractable makeup brush71K/yr
  • kabuki brush retractable33K/yr
  • retractable kabuki brush29K/yr
  • travel foundation brush17K/yr
  • travel blush brush16K/yr
  • retractable blush brush19K/yr
  • travel powder brush14K/yr
  • retractable foundation brush11K/yr
  • retractable makeup brush set12K/yr
  • travel kabuki brush8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Retractable Makeup Brush

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall14%+0.18

Awful Quality

It just seems lower quality than I had hoped

They are very cheaply made and inferior quality

Size-Overall9%

Smaller than expected

Not expected to be so short

but bigger

Durability7%−0.05

Broke Right Away

broke immediately

Broke after one use

Value For Money4%+0.34

Waste of money

Expensive

a little pricey

Functionality-Overall4%−0.03

for me it didnt work well

Not effective

Dont work

Love

Brush Quality22%+1.57

Wow great makeup brush

NICE BRUSH

Excellent brush

Soft Feel16%

The bristles are soft

The bristles are amazingly soft

It's very soft

Quality-Overall13%+0.18

Excellent Quality

Good quality and easy to clean

seems to be well made

Value For Money8%+0.34

Worth the money

Good deal

Excellent value

Ease Of Use6%+0.60

Easy to use

Easy to blend

Goes on easy

Return

2.2% Return rate 42% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall26%▅▇▇▇▇█

Smaller than expected

Not expected to be so short

but bigger

Functionality-Overall14%█▇▇█▇▆

for me it didnt work well

Not effective

Dont work

Brush Quality9%▇█▇▇█▆

Not a great brush

it's not a quality set of brushes

not this brush

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%▇▇▇█▇█
Quality-Overall8%▇▇█▇▇▇

Awful Quality

It just seems lower quality than I had hoped

They are very cheaply made and inferior quality

FAQ

Common Retractable Makeup Brush questions

Answered from the same tracked data.