Trends · data through September 2026

Makeup & Cosmetics in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 54 stores from 8 makeup & cosmetics in North Carolina. Nail Tek grew fastest over the last year, ahead of SEPHORA and Merle Norman Cosmetics.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
8
Tracked stores
54
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked makeup & cosmetics

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Nail Tek and SEPHORA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Nail Tek ▲1 +10.3%
2 SEPHORA - +1.0%
3 Merle Norman Cosmetics - -9.0%
4 Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio - -10.9%
5 The Cosmetics Company Store ▼1 -14.8%
6 Merle Norman - -46.3%
  • SEPHORA
  • Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio
  • Nail Tek
  • The Cosmetics Company Store
  • Merle Norman Cosmetics
  • Merle Norman
  • Lebanon-Monticello Merle Norman Cosmetics and Facial Spa
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

54 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. 0.4% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are makeup & cosmetics, the same share as across the United States.

  • SEPHORA (22)
  • Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio (12)
  • Nail Tek (5)
  • The Cosmetics Company Store (4)
  • Merle Norman Cosmetics (4)
  • Merle Norman (4)
  • Lebanon-Monticello Merle Norman Cosmetics and Facial Spa (1)
  • Other tracked chains

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