Episode #1 - Everyone Wants To Be A Detailer Until.. | The Truth About Being A Detailer!

It usually starts the same way. One sunny Sunday, someone washes their car, buys a snow foam cannon, overspends on products they don’t understand… and suddenly, it's “Professional Detailing available - DM to secure your slot.”

Welcome to the golden age of pop-up detailers.

These days, everyone wants a piece of the detailing game. And we get it — it looks incredible. Supercars in the sun. Ceramic coatings. Perfect reflections. The appeal is real. Who wouldn't want to spend their days working on Lambos, making paint pop in the sunlight, and posting satisfying 50/50 shots on Instagram? It looks like the dream job — and don’t get us wrong, sometimes it is.

But here’s the bit the highlight reels don’t show: Everyone wants to be a detailer… until they realise it’s not all Ferraris and foam cannons.

Until it’s 7pm in winter. It's freezing cold. Your hands are numb & you’re drying a car in the dark by headtorch.

Until you’re 6 hours deep into a paint correction, compound dust in the air, your backs screaming and you've still got 3 panels to go.

Until you’ve detailed a 14-year-old Ford Fiesta that's never been cleaned in its life, in sideways rain… for £60.

Detailing isn’t about liking cars and buying fancy kit. It’s about consistency. Craft. Learning. Unlearning. Getting it wrong once — and never making that mistake again. It’s showing up when it’s freezing, when it’s late, when you'd rather be doing anything else — and doing your absolute best anyway.

We didn’t build our reputation on likes. We built it on trust. On results. On the kind of relentless graft you don’t see on social media. Supercars in the sun are great — but they’re the reward, not the starting point.

So if you're thinking of jumping into the world of detailing — amazing. We genuinely wish you the best. But just know: it's a long game. It takes patience, passion, and a weird obsession with perfect reflections and invisible scratches.

Oh, and a decent coffee addiction doesn’t hurt either!

We’ll be dropping more posts soon — tools we trust, trade horror stories (pro tip: don’t read those over lunch), and the bits no one else talks about.

Whether you’re a detailer, a car nut, or just curious — follow along, subscribe, or shout us on socials.

And if you’ve ever spent hours correcting a black bonnet only to find a bird’s dropped on it...Welcome. You’re one of us.