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Sephora Skincare

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Sephora Skincare is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 8,284 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$178K/yr418K searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 107 sellers

Flapen Score

Sephora Skincare against its category

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

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sephora Skincare market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Sephora Skincare 418K times last year and spent an estimated $178K. All 4 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 418K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $178K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
418K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.6%
Conversion, latest week
2.2%
Market size, estimated
$178Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
victoria secret lip gloss135K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.31.

Listings sell for $19.31 on average, from $3.75 to $70.26. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $19.31 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.31inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.75–$70.26
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 86% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #618 within Lips. It carries 6,294 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
86%
Out of stock, average day
12.4%
Average rank
#618in Lips
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,294per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Sephora Skincare 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 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

107

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 178%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 41%

Demand

Sephora Skincare search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Sephora Skincare search terms shoppers use

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

  • victoria secret lip gloss135K/yr
  • sephora lip gloss72K/yr
  • victoria secret lipgloss17K/yr
  • elf glow reviver25K/yr
  • vs lip gloss15K/yr
  • victorias secret lip gloss17K/yr
  • elf lip lacquer16K/yr
  • lip gloss victoria secret12K/yr
  • summer fridays vanilla20K/yr
  • victoria secret lip gloss set19K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sephora Skincare

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Color”
10%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.7%of orders come back
“Waste of money”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”10% 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 Sephora Skincare questions

Answered from the same tracked data.