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Ulta Beauty

Fail

The average product has 38,987 reviews to catch up to, so Ulta Beauty is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 9,296 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −10 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$78K/yr252K searches / yr
90-day growth
-20.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 92 sellers

Flapen Score

Ulta Beauty against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Ulta Beauty market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Ulta Beauty 252K times last year and spent an estimated $78K. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 252K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $78K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
252K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-20.0%
Conversion, latest week
1.1%
Market size, estimated
$78Ka year
Top search term
ulta beauty184K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $27.67.

Listings sell for $27.67 on average, from $4.67 to $73.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $27.67 that is $3K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$27.67inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.67–$73.73
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$7K
Returns
0.3%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, 8.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #342 within Makeup Brushes & Tools. It carries 38,987 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
8.1%
Average rank
#342in Makeup Brushes & Tools
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
38,987per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 57 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
57 months

Products

Top Ulta Beauty products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 17, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$8K$16K$23K$31K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

92

Est. top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Sol de Janeiro31%
  • Real Perfection30%
  • Ulta Beauty14%
  • e.l.f.9%
  • Geyomi5%
  • BOLOPER3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 8%)

Demand

Ulta Beauty search demand

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

30K20KSpike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 10.2× · 8 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Ulta Beauty search terms shoppers use

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

  • ulta beauty184K/yr
  • ulta beauty store15K/yr
  • sol de janeiro 62 set19K/yr
  • ulta products8K/yr
  • real perfection makeup brush set6K/yr
  • ulta beauty makeup5K/yr
  • sol de janeiro 62 gift set6K/yr
  • ulta beauty sale5K/yr
  • sol de janeiro set 623K/yr
  • real perfection makeup brush set 16 pcs2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Ulta Beauty

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
11%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.3%of orders come back
“weird chemical smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”11% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Ulta Beauty questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data