Tattoo / Body Mod cultural shift

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In the past fashions have changed.
The 50's had a clean cut look - greased hair, clean shaven. (Generally speaking)
That was mostly due to improvements in razor technology - made it easier.
Then the 60's had a rebellion, longer messier hair.
70's went extreme with beards & super long hair, massive flares on jeans.
80's began to style - curled hair - fantastical makeup, moustaches, sideburns, ratstails, mullet, teezed hair.
90's gave back a cleaner look, perhaps bigger hair for males (similar to 50's), goatees.

I look at the massive rise in tattooing & body modification, and feel there could be a shift away from this.
perhaps not now, it might have a way to go before it reaches the apex.
But when it does (I know many won't regret or remove/hide their work) I feel some people may suddenly have all of their changes removed.
There is a little bit of this happening, some people cover up early tattoos.
I've seen young people remove piercings and go for a more 'normal' look later in life.

I just wonder how extreme the revolution/backlash against all the body mod will be?
Though I'm speculating, as in the future we'll probably has some other crazy technological crazes.

I've seen a lot of people getting tattoos of memes and other passing cultural fads as of late. Up until recently that was strongly discouraged in favour of something that will always mean something to you. Maybe they think "oh, I can get that removed". Or at least I hope they're thinking that. I wonder what the guy who got a tattoo of "The Dress" is thinking about it now?