Currently you dont need to be qualified in hair, however I beleive HABIA are looking into changing this which I agree with. My personal opinion is that you need some form of backround in hair before even attempting to do extensions, perhaps take up a saturday job or a part time course in hair 1st get the basics behind you, then do a cutting course then maybe think about extensions - also worth spending a few months researching extensions before doing the course as they dont have time to get into all the details on the 1 or 2 days training sessions and if you prep by knowing your basics and being able to prepair questions for anything you dont understand you will get more out of the day. Its not a quick fix to make quick cash, the more you put in the more you will get out x