Brooke Ramsey (seated) and Megan Murphy enjoy a quiet moment at The Color Nook.
Brooke Ramsey and Megan Murphy have been working together since 2018.
By Rich Wicks | Panora Times, March 2025
The Color Nook, 109 E. Main in Panora, is new but also familiar. The shop is the former location of Britt’s Family Hair Care but is now operated by Brooke Ramsey and Megan Murphy. The new shop opened Jan. 2. Ramsey and Murphy say they have been happily busy ever since.
“I’ve been doing hair since 2012. I’ve worked at a couple places, and then I joined Megan working at Cut Loose Salon in Guthrie Center in 2018,” Ramsey said. “We’ve been working together since, and we became best friends.”
The pair enjoyed their work in Guthrie Center but welcomed the opportunity to move their service to Panora.
“We heard that Britt wanted to head back home to be closer to her kids and family, so this kind of just fell into our laps,” Ramsey said. “And it brought both of us closer to home, too.”
The Color Nook is located at 109 E. Main St. in Panora.
“We offer a wide variety of services. Haircuts for all ages, kids, men, women. We do a lot of color, which is why we chose the name for the shop. We both really enjoy doing color services, especially highlights and blonding. We also do facial waxing. We do hair for weddings and proms and things like that.”
The Color Nook sells a variety of hair care products, too.
“We sell a lot of our favorite hair products. It’s a little bit of everything,” Murphy said.
Other services are available occasionally, as well.
“We do have a nail technician, Sydney Morris,” Murphy said. “She is here twice a month. She also worked with us at Cut Loose.”
“Sydney also offers makeup services and airbrush makeup, which is pretty popular for weddings and proms,” Ramsey said.
Although the business is new, Murphy and Ramsey said they appreciate the welcome they have received in Panora.
“We really like the Panora community, and it’s been fun being over here,” Ramsey said.
“A lot of the other businesses have been very welcoming,” Murphy added.
The Color Nook uses social media for making appointments.
“We do have Facebook, and that’s how we are booking most of our appointments,” Ramsey said. “We are by appointment only. We’re usually closed Sundays through Tuesdays.”
Murphy said most appointments are made roughly two or three weeks ahead.
“And I would say, for a Saturday, maybe even a month,” she said. “Our hours are typically 9 to 5.”
Because the two have kept most of their clientele for many years, they have connected meaningfully with their customers. Ramsey and Murphy said they enjoy their work, and especially the chance to catch up socially while clients are in the shop.
“There have been some kids that I started cutting their hair in fifth or sixth grade, and now they’re graduating,” Murphy said. “Or some that I started doing their hair in high school, and now they’re getting married and having kids. It’s really a bittersweet thing.” n