The podcast where hairdressers finally spill everything but the shampoo.
Every week, host Luke Ormsby pulls up a chair with a different hair professional for honest, funny, no-agenda conversations about the industry that raised them. No politics. No polish. Just the real stories from behind the chair.
Real talk, straight from the sink.
Backwash Bullshit is a weekly podcast about the hair industry — and how we all came to be in it. Hosted by Luke Ormsby, each episode sits down a different hair professional for a conversation that's part therapy chair, part comedy show, part career story.
We talk about what makes them tick, how they came up in the industry, and what they love most about the chairs they've stood behind for years. Along the way, expect the chaos too — the client stories that shouldn't be funny but absolutely are, and the moments only someone who's held a pair of scissors for a living would understand.
It's a light-hearted, non-political, non-polarising space built for one thing: bringing people together over a shared love of the industry — whether you've been in it for thirty years or you're wondering if it's for you.
Every guest gets the full service.
Just like a real appointment, every episode moves through the same three stages — because that's how you actually get someone to open up.
The Rinse
The warm-up. Who they are, where they started, and how they first ended up in the industry — the apprenticeship stories, the happy accidents, the family trades.
The Chair
The real sit-down. What makes them tick, what they love most about the work, and the parts of the industry that keep them coming back after all these years.
The Blowout
The good stuff. The funniest, most unhinged, most unbelievable stories from a career spent serving clients — told exactly how they happened.
Built to get people into this industry — and keep them here.
Hairdressing doesn't always get talked about the way it deserves. We want the next generation to hear, in their own words, from the people already living it — why they love it, why they stayed, and why it might be for you too.
Whether you're just starting out, thinking about a career behind the chair, or you've been doing this longer than you can remember, this is a show made to make you laugh, teach you something, and remind you why you fell for the industry in the first place.
Luke Ormsby
Luke Ormsby
Luke Ormsby has spent 27 years behind the chair, building a career — and a premium salon group — from the ground up. He knows the industry from every angle: the apprenticeship years, the chaos of a fully booked Saturday, and the quieter moments that make the job worth it.
Backwash Bullshit is his excuse to sit down with the people who make this industry what it is, ask the questions clients never do, and let the conversation go wherever it wants — usually somewhere funnier than expected.
A Qlooqo Original, proudly made for hairdressers, by hairdressers.
Catch it every week.
Launching soon — find Backwash Bullshit wherever you get your podcasts.