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The shop I brought it too had really good Angie's list ratings and reviews. I should have just asked for a good recommendation on this forum first rather than trusting user reviews.

I'm going to get some second opinions from a body shop and the reputable detailer mentioned earlier in the thread this week. It would be great if a repaint wasn't required but I'm just assuming worse case now. :cry:

So I heard back from the detail shop, the swirling is actually under the clear coat so someone must have been done wrong when the body shop applied the coat. They tried wet-sanding and had no luck removing it. Looks like the hood will need to be repainted.

Thanks, I probably will reach out to him later this week. Here are some better shots under a spotlight:

The hood was repainted at some point before I owned the car. However, I'm pretty sure those marks were not there before I brought it in. The rest of the car had holigrams/swirl marks in it after I got it back which led me to take a very close look at the hood. I was able to easily remove those...

Thanks for the response. I've getting no blue paint transfer to the pad when using ultimate compound. The area your pointing out is not a reflection, that is where its most noticable. Here's a better shot of just that spot: https://imageshack.com/i/f0yA9tfUj

so I had my car buffed (Blue 2012 CTS-v) and now I can see this milky white haze in spots on the hood under direct light. So far I've tried the following by hand to remove with no luck: claybar, meguires ultimate compound, 70/30 ipa mix, wax. Any thoughts on what this is and if it can be...