C++ validation loop issues - c++

Question

I'm pretty new to c++ and am really close to the solution, but I still need some help. My loop works correctly the first time. After that when I enter the car number, it seems to be grabbing some input somewhere and just executes the invalid color on the second pass. Obviously, I'm missing something, but I'm at a loss. Any help would be appreciated.
This is just a small snippet of my program, but there lays the problem:
while (count < 3)
{
cout << endl << "Enter car color: blue, red or green in lower case. ";
getline(cin, carColor[count]);
if (!(carColor[count] == "blue" || carColor[count] == "red" || carColor[count] == "green"))
{
cout << "That is an invalid color"
<< "The program will exit";
cin.clear();
cin.ignore();
return 0;
}
cout << endl << "Enter car number between 1 and 99: ";
cin >> carNumber[count]; // Enter car number
if (carNumber[count] >99 || carNumber[count] < 1)
{
cout << "That is not a correct number"
<< " The program will exit";
return 0;
}
cout << "car no is:" << carNumber[count] << "color: " << carColor[count];
++count;
// int lapCount{ 1 };
cout << endl;
}

Answer 1

The '\n' character after you press enter in cin >> carNumber[count]; probably still remains so after you execute the second pass of getline(cin, carColor[count]); you get an empty string. One solution is to do this:
char c;
cin >> carNumber[count];
cin >> c;
But better solution would be just to change:
getline(cin, carColor[count]);
to:
cin >> carColor[count];