Are both of these crafting abilities broken?

Perfection has the description "ensures success of next action", but it fails.

Flawlessness has the description "temporarily prevents the increase in risk", but I fail to see how this is even working at all, as the crafting orb can go from white to something much riskier and can even go unstable. I just bought this tonight and I think I wasted 12K hard earned guild marks.