Guys pls help, I think I'm cooked!

This is my first car, and I had plans to polish the paint and make it look nice. I washed the car and dried it, claybarred the car, using plenty of lube.

Rinsed it, dried it. Polished it using a buffer polisher I bought, and thus is when I realised that after buffing and wiping off, marks and faded bits would show thru.

I then used turtle wax spray wax. The sides look great, as you can see in the last pic, but the bonnet looks horrendous.