Hello, the conditions you mentioned for colored products may occur for several reasons. 1. The two products you are using together may not be compatible with each other. 2. Skin/lip may be moist enough, not exfoliated dead skin. As a suggestion, apply the blushes to the moist skin, and with the colored lip balms, be careful to exfoliate before the lip and clean it from the dead skin. Additionally, you can get better results by applying a colorless moisturizing lip balm before tinted lip balms. With love