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We've all been there. Your hair is getting in the way but you don't have a hair band handy.

So you twist it, wrap it into a bun and stick a pen through it to keep it in place. Most us do this without even sparing a thought for what could happen if it all goes wrong and the pen leaks.

A bride-to-be with platinum blonde hair learned her lesson on this one the hard way.

Just a week before her wedding , Daphne Martin took a pen out of her hair only to find it had left a massive inky blue patch over her blonde locks. Not ideal.

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"I was working at Costco at the time, and I had put a pen into my messy ponytail," she told Allure . "A coworker approached me and told me what had happened, and I was in complete shock."

Fortunately, Daphne had previously trained as a hair stylist, so she was better placed than most of us to sort out the mishap.

She put her fiancé to work as her assistant and washed her hair in the kitchen sink before applying bleach to her hair.

"I washed the area, blew it out, and then applied bleach. Surprisingly enough, five minutes of bleach got that out of my extremely light hair. My hair was back to normal that day — even an hour later, thank goodness."

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It's seriously impressive that she managed to pull it off in just five minutes, but arguably having platinum hair actually made it easier to bleach out.

If she had darker hair, she could have ended up making the blue hair and surrounding area lighter and would then have had to blend it back in with another colour.

Luckily her hair was back to being perfectly platinum in time for the big day - but we're sure she'll think twice about pinning her hair up with a pen next tine.

We can learn from this one - keep the pen AWAY from the hair from now on.