If you didn’t torture your grandma by pulling on her weird glasses chain back in the day, were you ever even a kid?

There are certainly ways to make this unique accessory a questionable fashion choice, and we’ve probably seen them all. But it doesn’t have to be this way – and fashion icons are stepping up to the plate to bring this retro slice of the function over form past back into the present with a bang.

Cute or not, make no doubt about it: the glasses chain is mighty useful. Glasses are already a hassle, and how easy they are to be extra inconvenient is undeniable. At best, they fall off you while the whole Starbucks line is waiting – and at worst, they smash all over the sidewalk, leaving you to blindly walk home before shelling out another couple hundred because if you’re going to have four eyes you’re going to look cute doing it, darn it!

Now that they’re coming back, they’re doing so in every style you can imagine. They might not all be for you, but we’ll bet at least one of them is…

Here are the four trends dominating the streets so far:

1. The thin, dainty glasses chain:

A girl who you can’t help but notice even though she isn’t trying. The dream, right?

2. The “thick and bold like my personality” chain:

No need to explain, the chain and the resting mean face say it all.

3. The playful, dreamlike chain (AKA fun at parties):

This chain can be everything your inner 4-year-old wanted to wear all at once, but strung together in a lovely line. Also a great conversation starter.

4. The pearl chain:

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but a string of those on either side of your face all day is not only irresponsible – it’s ugly. Pearls, on the other hand, will chic up your life and your vision!

As you can see, some people have begun hanging them in front like a necklace…we can neither confirm nor deny that this is fashion. But go make your own statement with your style of choice, get ready to never worry about your glasses again – and most importantly, make your grandma proud!

These small and big screen characters seem to have no problem spreading rumors, manipulating, lying, or engaging in even worse behavior in order to achieve their goals. Take a look at the worst mean girls to appear onscreen.

It’s safe to say that the ‘90s was the decade of dark teen movies. Take Drop Dead Gorgeous, for instance. The film tells the story of several beauty contestants vying for the title of a local beauty pageant. One of the contestants is Becky Leeman, a ruthless teenager who will stop at nothing to achieve her pageant dreams.

No mention of dark teen films would be complete without the ultimate dark film of the ‘90s, The Craft. This film tells the story of four high school girls who develop supernatural powers.

The unofficial leader of the “coven” is Nancy Downs, a troubled and rebellious girl. As Nancy’s powers develop, she becomes crueler and vengeful, turning even against the other girls of the coven. Nancy’s downward spiral and unhinged behavior, driven by her power-hunger, make her the ultimate high school mean girl.

Played by Amanda Bynes, Marianne Bryant is the quintessential Hollywood mean girl. Bryant is the leader of her high school’s church group and decides to take it upon herself to save her classmate after hearing a particularly salacious rumor about her classmate’s love life.

Bryant’s judgemental nature gets the best of her as she tries to force Olive out of high school. Bryant does her best to make not only Olive’s life difficult, but the lives of anyone else she doesn’t believe is living a sin-free life.

Though it wasn’t popular when it was initially released, Heathers has become a cult classic. The teen drama tells the story of a vicious clique of girls known as “the Heathers”. The group, led by its founder and leader Heather Chandler, rules Westerburg High.

Chandler is extremely cruel, even treating the members of her clique with disdain. In one of the film’s most pivotal scenes, and a perfect example of Chandler’s heartlessness, she vows revenge on a fellow clique member for ruining her reputation.

One of Megan Fox’s most memorable roles is that of popular cheerleader-turned-demonic succubus Jennifer Check. Though she’s surprisingly kind to her mousey plain-jane best friend, Jennifer takes her wrath out on the town’s local male population.

Driven by her insatiable appetite for human flesh, and her need for retribution, Jennifer begins devouring and murdering her male classmates. More than just a mean girl, Jennifer is actually murderous, using her attractiveness to lure the town’s men to their demise.

Though not as well-received as other teen-centered dramas, Jawbreaker was the perfect example of high school mean girls in action. In the film, Courtney Shayne is the “Queen Bee” of the popular clique known as “The Flawless Four.”

Courtney’s cruelty and bullish nature is well known amongst her fellow peers, and even to the clique members. After a prank goes south, Courtney’s dark nature comes to light. Her manipulation and lack of morality make for a perfect mean girl villain.

With all of that scheming and acts of vengeance, it’s surprising that Georgina Sparks was able to keep up with her classes. While most of the characters on Gossip Girl could be considered morally ambiguous, Georgina is probably the worst.

Manipulating, scheming, lying — you name it, she’s done it. While most of the show’s characters engage in bad behavior for a reason, Georgina seems to simply enjoy destroying other people’s lives.

Like most television shows set in a high school, Riverdale has its own version of the popular cheerleader. Cheryl Blossom is Riverdale High School’s ruling mean girl. With her stunning looks and savage one-liners, it’s no surprise that her classmates are intimidated by her.

Though most of the show shows how manipulative Cheryl can be, we’re eventually shown a softer side and even some redeeming qualities. Cheryl proves that even high school mean girls are capable of change.

What would a ‘90s teen film be without a mean girl? In the 1999 film, She’s All That, Taylor Vaughn is the high school’s resident popular girl. With Freddie Prinze Jr. on her arm, and the entire school enamored with her, Taylor seems to be living the ideal life.

That is, until her popularity is threatened by Laney, a former less-popular girl who recently received a makeover. Vaughn’s meanness takes the form of everything from pettiness to just plain cruelty, anything possible to keep her position as the most popular girl.

We’re not sure why, but it seems that being a cheerleader and being a mean girl seem to go hand-in-hand, at least according to Hollywood. In the musical television series, Glee, Santana Lopez seems to revel in her meanness.

From the first episode, we see her making fun of other characters. Santana seems to think there’s nothing wrong with being overly emotional, manipulative, and condescending. While she occasionally shows a nicer side, we think most fans secretly enjoyed her less-than-nice personality.

You have to hand it to Mandy Moore, the singer-turned-actress who became the queen of mean in several films in the early 2000s. The Princess Diaries centers around a high school outcast who finds out she’s actually a princess.

What fairytale would be complete without a wicked witch? That role was played by Lana Thomas, the most popular girl in Princess Mia’s high school. Thomas takes pleasure in bullying Mia and even tries to jeopardize Mia’s royal title by setting her up in a less-than-noble situation.

What good would a film about cheerleading be without a little competition? Bring it On centers around the world of high school competitive cheerleading. One cheerleader seems to take her obsession with winning a bit too far.

“Big Red,” the previous captain of the Toros cheerleading team steals the routines of other squads, using their choreography to win championships. Though Big Red only appears at the beginning of the film, her meanness causes lasting problems for the rest of the characters.

Like most ‘80s movies set in high school, Pretty in Pink has the prerequisite “jerk” character (Steff) with the mandatory mean girl by his side (Benny). Benny Hanson is stunningly gorgeous but equally cruel and manipulative.

She’s especially mean to Molly Ringwald’s character, Andie, often making fun of her social class or friends. She has no problem going too far when it comes to making others feel bad, even forcing her equally awful boyfriend, Steff, to step in.

There must be something in the water in New York City’s Upper East Side to produce so many mean girls. While Blair Waldorf gets a (rightfully earned) bad rep for being mean, “It Girl” Serena van der Woodsen is just as bad.

In fact, she might be even worse because she constantly blames others or victimizes herself while actively trying to destroy the lives of others. Serena uses her beauty and charm to manipulate people and involve people in her disastrous life choices.

Though most of the high school experience in Clueless is unrealistic (looking at you automated closet/outfit picker), most of us definitely went to school with at least one mean girl like Amber. Amber is a snobby, mean-spirited girl who often feels the need to compete with Cher and Dionne for popularity.

She’s obsessed with style and often comes across as condescending and rude. Amber is often seen with a sour face and delivering rude one-liners complete with copious amounts of eye-rolls.

Teen comedies and dramas aren’t the only places to find mean girls. It turns out that the horror genre is filled with misbehaving high schoolers, too. In the book and film adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, Chris Hargensen and her cronies are the reigning mean girls at Ewen High School.

They seem to make it their hobby to torment and bully their classmate, Carrie White. Chris’ cruelty reaches its peak when she plans to humiliate Carrie at prom, involving her boyfriend and friends in her disturbing plan.

Set in a military school, the mean girl in Cadet Kelly is a uniformed villain named Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone. Cadet Kelly, a fish-out-of-water at the rigid military school where she’s forced to transfer, immediately clashes with Cadet Stone and other higher-ranking officers.

Stone refers to Kelly as a “maggot” and destroys a sentimental blanket belonging to her. Stone’s harshness reaches new levels when it’s revealed that the two are vying for the attention of the same love interest.

No list of high school mean girls would be complete without the ultimate mean girl — Regina George. Regina rules North Shore High School with an iron fist thanks to her army of followers known as “The Plastics.” Regina delights in bullying her classmates, spreading rumors, and generally tormenting the school’s population.

When her position as top Queen Bee is threatened by newcomer Cady Heron, she launches the most vicious attack ever — disclosing the secrets of the group’s “Burn Book,” a collection of embarrassing revelations and rumors.

Like most teen dramas of the early 2000s, One Tree Hill was not without its fair share of bad girls. One character, in particular, was proud of her bad behavior — Rachel Gatina. Rachel and former-Queen Bee Brooke Davis start off as rivals, only to become frenemies.

Rachel frequently uses derogatory words to describe Brooke, makes sniping comments about Brooke’s figure, and tries to seduce Brooke’s boyfriend. Rachel’s manipulative nature and poor decision-making skills come to a climax when she causes some secrets to be released, jeopardizing the safety of her classmates.

One of the darkest and most sociopathic characters on film has to be Kathryn Merteuil from the film, Cruel Intentions. In the movie, Kathryn seems like the ultimate high school girl — beautiful, popular, seemingly pious.

Behind that veneer, however, is a cruel and manipulative social mastermind who enjoys toying with the lives of others. She sees her classmates and even family members as pawns in her deeply disturbing psychological games, making her the ultimate high school mean girl.

What good would a film about a high school reunion be if it didn’t involve a confrontation between former high school students and their childhood bully? In this case, Romy and Michele came face-to-face with their high school tormentor, Christie Masters.

Christie and other cheerleaders form a clique known as the “A-Group,” who pick on Romy and Michele. Christie decides to take her meanness one step further when she tricks Romy into believing that her boyfriend Billy is in love with Romy, causing Romy to wait all night for him to dance with her.

It seems that even religious schools are home to mean girls displaying some less-than-holy behavior. In the cult religious satire film, Saved!, a young religious teenager becomes pregnant — causing her friend Hilary Faye to lash out.

Hilary believes that her friend has sinned and continuously harasses her, even attempting to perform an exorcism on her. Hilary, despite professing to be a religiously devout person, constantly lies, manipulates, judges, and even physically attacks her classmates.

The film Never Been Kissed tells the story of a journalist who goes undercover at a high school for an investigative report. Like her first time in high school, Josie is faced with a new generation of mean girls — a clique made up of Kirsten, Gibby, and Kristen.

Like the popular girls before them, this terrible trio is obnoxiously self-obsessed, superficial, and manipulative. Thankfully, the girls are shown a lesson when one of their cruel pranks goes wrong.

In most films and television shows, the mean girl typically starts out mean but eventually sees the light and becomes a better person. In the classic teen drama, Beverly Hills, 90210, Brenda Walsh arrives in Beverly Hills as a naïve girl from the Midwest.

Unfortunately, she quickly gets comfortable with her newfound popularity. Brenda is very competitive — especially when it comes to getting attention from boys, causing her to mistreat any female classmates who catch the eyes of her crush.

While there have been many memorable mean girls on the big screen, few small-screen mean girls are as well known as Blair Waldorf, the unofficial Queen Bee of Constance Billard School for Girls. Blair’s obsession with status, success, and wealth led her to become one of the most vicious and manipulative characters in television history.

Blair’s schemes are often carried out by her devoted (and terrified) minions. Though she and Serena van der Woodsen have a long-running friendship, there are times when even Serena is at the center of one of Blair’s cruel plots.

For most of the show’s first season, Paris is as mean as they come. Paris is an extremely ambitious student, taking her goals a bit too far and not letting Rory get in her way.

Paris sees Rory as a competition, both academically and as a romantic competition after her crush is seen talking to her. Paris often makes snide remarks to Rory and even spreads rumors and gossip about her mother. While the two eventually patch things up, they definitely had a rocky start.

Moving from a big city like New York City to a small New Jersey suburb can be difficult, it’s even more difficult when that suburban high school is run by a particularly mean girl named Carla Santini.

When Carla loses out on the main role in the school play to newcomer Lola, she unleashes a series of vengeful acts on Lindsay Lohan’s character. Her bitterness is made worse when she loses a dancing video game and after her crush starts falling for Lola.

From the first episode of the supernatural teen show, Cordelia Chase is seen taunting Buffy’s friend, Willow. Willow isn’t the only character that feels the wrath of Cordelia, though, she routinely makes fun of Sunnydale High’s other students.

Though her character redeems herself and eventually accepts the supernatural world around her, she returns to her villainous ways in the Buffy spinoff, Angel. After it is revealed that her cruelty and bad behavior were the results of being possessed, Cordelia once again becomes a benevolent force.

Some Hollywood films don’t only feature mean girls but mean boys too. Dazed and Confused centers on the perils of high school hazing. In the film, Parker Posey’s character, Darla Marks, inflicts her cruelty on the incoming freshman girls.

She and other upperclassmen scream at the girls like sadistic drill sergeants while covering them with ketchup, mustard, flour, and raw eggs and forcing them to “propose” to the senior boys. Darla seems to enjoy degrading and humiliating the incoming freshman without an ounce of remorse.

Though it only aired for one season, Freaks and Geeks later became a cult classic television show. One of the most memorable characters of the show was Kim Kelly. Kim is usually shown wearing a light blue jacket, heavy black eyeliner, and an almost permanent look of disgust and animosity towards the show’s other characters.

Kim is very aggressive and openly hostile, but viewers soon learn that most of her anger comes from having been raised in a dysfunctional family. As the episodes go on, we begin to see a softer side to the rough and tough character.

We know what you’re probably thinking — little Jenny Humphrey? She couldn’t possibly be a mean girl … The truth is that, while Jenny started Gossip Girl as the innocent freshman wanting to join the ranks of Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf, she soon became her very own type of mean girl.

No longer concerned about winning their approval, Jenny soon finds her very own minions to control. In typical Gossip Girl fashion, Jenny sets out on a path full of manipulation, gossip spreading, and making all-around destructive choices — many of which hurt the people closest to her.

Another case of an unexpected mean girl, Cady Heron goes from being bullied to the bullier in the film Mean Girls. Once the socially awkward new girl, Cady finds herself becoming the newest member of the school’s reigning clique, “The Plastics.”

Her friends watch (with horror) as she gets increasingly comfortable with behaving and looking like a mean girl. Eventually, Cady’s manipulative and awful behavior catches up as she manages to almost compromise her friendship, academic standing, and relationship with her parents.

Despite her bullying ways, Alison DiLaurentis is considered the “It” girl at Rosewood High before her mysterious disappearance (no spoilers!). It seemed that Alison possessed a special ability to make others trust her, resulting in them entrusting her with their deepest and darkest secrets.

Manipulative and armed with some of Rosewood High’s most precious secrets, Alison was not particularly loved. In fact, most of the school’s population hated her.

Many people do not have the most positive associations with politicians, and for good reason. It seems that some people are easily swayed or infatuated with the power that comes from being elected — even if it’s to be elected for student government.

Beyond being a typical high school overachiever and know-it-all, Tracy Flick becomes so consumed with winning the election that she resorts to some very inappropriate behavior. Flick’s need to control and manipulate situations has been used to compare her to some real-world politicians.

In order to help develop the character of High School Musical’s Sharpay Evans, actress Ashley Tisdale looked to Mean Girls’ villain, Regina George. Though Sharpay is not as cruel as Regina George, she’s still not known for her kindness.

In the Disney production, Sharpay is known to be manipulative when it comes to getting her way, especially when it comes to landing a role in the musical. Most of her fellow students are fearful of her as she uses her power and wealth to get what she wants.

When creating the character of Chanel Oberlin for his horror-comedy series, Scream Queens, Ryan Murphy took inspiration from real sorority mean girls. Chanel, played by actress Emma Roberts, is the cruel and vicious president of the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority at her university.

Vengeful and with sociopathic tendencies, Chanel rules over her self-named clique, “The Chanels.” Unlike most of the mean girls on this list, Chanel’s bullying and meanness often result in real violence or injury.

Though initially panned, Wild Things has become a cult film. The erotic thriller features two high school girls, a popular girl named Kelly and the other, a loner named Suzie. The two girls end up accusing a popular guidance counselor of inappropriate behavior — leading to a deep web of lies, coverups, and revenge.

Kelly’s character uses her looks to manipulate men and others, while Suzie’s aloof loner attitude hides an even darker side. Together, the two are some of the most cold-hearted characters roaming the halls of their high school.

In The CW dramedy series, The Carrie Diaries, young Carrie Bradshaw is faced with one of Castlebury High’s meanest girls — Donna LaDonna. With her bold fashion and popularity with the boys, Donna is seen as Carrie’s competition.

Donna leads a clique of similarly shallow and popular girls known as “The Jens.” Though she’s quite nasty to Carrie in the show’s first season, the second season of the show allows viewers to see a kinder side to Carrie’s frenemy.

In the Netflix dark comedy series, Insatiable, Patty plays a once overweight teen who turns to beauty pageants as a way to enact revenge on her former bullies. Though she was once comfortable being an outcast, Patty quickly becomes consumed with her looks and maintaining her new figure.

Patty’s entry (and success) in the world of teen beauty pageants bring out her darker side — one filled with revenge, bullying, and even violence! Patty goes from being the victim to the victimizer, much to the horror of her loved ones.

In the MTV show, Awkward, a young teen must deal with the fallout that comes from a suspicious injury and the rumors that follow it. Helping her feel worse is her high school’s resident mean girl — Sadie Saxton.

Sadie is a popular cheerleader who is known for her cruel insults and manipulative nature. From taking embarrassing photos to spreading rumors, Sadie does everything she can to make high school worse for those around her.