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Travel Makeup Brushes

Maybe

Returns run at only 1.8% of orders. But the average product has 6,733 reviews to catch up to, so Travel Makeup Brushes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 38% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +2 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$118K/yr345K searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 32 brands · 175 sellers

Flapen Score

Travel Makeup Brushes against its category

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

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Travel Makeup Brushes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Travel Makeup Brushes 345K times last year and spent an estimated $118K. The top 5 brands take 61% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

2.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 345K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $118K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
345K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.1%
Conversion, latest week
2.8%
Market size, estimated
$118Ka year
Peak month
December2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
mini makeup brushes101K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.13.

Listings sell for $12.13 on average, from $4.08 to $27.91. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $12.13 that is $1K to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.13under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.08–$27.91
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
$1K–$3K
Returns
1.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #230 within Makeup Brushes & Tools. It carries 6,733 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.6%
Average rank
#230in Makeup Brushes & Tools
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,733per listing
Listings tracked
51

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 8 launches as successful.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 35 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
35 months

Products

Top Travel Makeup Brushes 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 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$4K$7K$11K$14K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

32 rising

Sellers

175

Top-5 brand share

61%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

35%

  • Real Techniques24%
  • Generic11%
  • EupHHonycs9%
  • COSHINE9%
  • BS-MALL9%
  • JILIER3%

Demand

Travel Makeup Brushes search demand

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

23K18KBlack Friday '24Prime Day '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Travel Makeup Brushes search terms shoppers use

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

  • mini makeup brushes101K/yr
  • travel makeup brush47K/yr
  • mini makeup brush19K/yr
  • mini makeup brush set24K/yr
  • mini travel makeup brush set20K/yr
  • real techniques travel brush set15K/yr
  • morphe travel brush set12K/yr
  • travel brushes12K/yr
  • makeup brush travel11K/yr
  • mini brush set14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Travel Makeup Brushes

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

Complain

Quality-Overall15%+0.37

Awful Quality

Very cheap & flimsy quality

Cheap quality

Durability9%−0.05

Broke Right Away

do not last

Broke after one use

Size-Overall6%

Smaller than expected

they're short

small length

Value For Money5%+0.37

a little pricey

Waste of money

Expensive

Hard Feel5%−0.04

They are very rough

Hard to use

It is too stiff

Love

Brush Quality18%+0.93

Wow great makeup brush

Good brush

Good Quality Brushes

Quality-Overall18%+0.37

Affordable quality here

Decent quality

Great variety for the price

Soft Feel15%

It's very soft

Material is soft

Very smooth and soft

Value For Money10%+0.37

reasonably priced

Excellent value

Good deal

Ease Of Use5%+0.55

Easy to handle

Ease to use

Easy to blend

Return

1.8% Return rate 44% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall28%▇███▇█

Smaller than expected

they're short

small length

Quality-Overall15%▆▇█▇▇▇

Awful Quality

Very cheap & flimsy quality

Cheap quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%▇████▇
Brush Quality8%▇▇▇█▇▆

ends up opening the brush all the way up which I found annoying

not this brush

The brushes are not good quality

Functionality-Overall8%██▆▇▇▇

It doesn't work well

It barely picks up any product

not working

FAQ

Common Travel Makeup Brushes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.