MAR 4, 2026

INSIDE: LinkedIn Skills, Overnight Beauty, and Lasting Goals.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA:

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We’re reading the labels, booking the retreat, and taking notes straight from Milan.

• When the “healthy” option isn’t actually healthy.

• This cortisol detox retreat has us wanting to pack our bags.

• The Black fashion designers to follow (because support should be more than one month).

• Women’s Olympic hockey merch is trending.

• Saving these Milan Fashion Week looks for later…

Skills “R” Us!

According to LinkedIn’s latest Skills on the Rise report, we’re in for some accelerating workplace changes. Globally, 38% of job skills shifted between 2016 and 2023, but that’s looking to increase up to 70% by 2030 due to the rise of generative AI. And with hiring still down (16% lower than pre-pandemic levels), honing your skills is incredibly important since recruiters have begun seriously filtering by skills data. 

Job titles may begin to matter less, with skills mattering even more. This is tough considering that 43% of professionals worry they don’t have the requisite skills for the future job market, and 1 in 5 citing skills gaps as impediments to their job searches. In a tough (and slow) market, standing out means leveraging your skills—which you do have—and being as specific as possible. 

If you’re looking to hone your skills, the fastest growing set that recruiters are looking for all have to do with AI. On the tech front, AI engineering, prompt engineering, data annotation, and AI business strategy are surging. But human skills are just as integral. Think: cross-functional team management, mentorship, executive and stakeholder communication, and operational efficiency. Employers want people who are skilled in AI, but they need people who can guide others through this new tech, too. 

According to expert predictions, the future of the workplace belongs to professionals who can translate complexity and newness into efficient execution. So, how can you benefit from this shift? Audit your current skill stack and identify one technical capability and one leadership capability to build out this year. Use accessible learning tools—like LinkedIn Learning or MasterClass—to close the gap proactively, rather than panicking later.

Lights out, skincare on.

Somewhere between burnout and busy schedules, beauty found a new window of opportunity: our sleep.

Overnight beauty is less about routine-maxxing and more about setting yourself up before your head hits the pillow. Think thick sleeping masks that seal everything in, lip treatments that actually survive eight hours, heatless curl sets that do the work for you, and silk eye masks that feel like a boundary between you and the outside world. It’s low-effort, but high-return.

After years of optimization culture, people are craving rituals that feel passive and productive. Slugging, scalp oils, lash serums, and pimple patches are all part of a laissez-faire mindset. mindset. Beauty becomes less about performing and more about recovery.

In a culture obsessed with doing the most, overnight beauty is winning by asking us to do the least.

Romanticizing the routine.

With the ever expanding Pilates universe in the it-girl zeitgeist, the Newsette team has attended quite a lot of classes (especially in the early months of the year). In the new year, we all strive to create new habits, be better to our bodies, and even create a new life. But according to Triana Brown, Active Coach and Senior Director of Product Strategy at solidcore (and a NASM Certified Women’s Fitness Specialist), that’s exactly where most of us go wrong.

Triana told us that the “biggest mistake [she] sees is treating January 1st like a complete reset button.” 

It’s not uncommon to come in hot to the new year with a new diet and a five-day workout plan for a total lifestyle overhaul. The all-or-nothing energy feels powerful until real life hits. By February, motivation tends to fizzle as schedules fill up and we begin to quietly negotiate with ourselves. 

Fortunately, it’s not a total loss to the year. Triana told us that “starting fresh doesn't mean starting extreme. The people who see the most lasting change aren't the ones who go hardest in January; they're the ones who are still showing up in March. A fresh start is most powerful when it's built on a realistic foundation, not a dramatic one.” 

Moreover, we often misunderstand consistency as intensity. But true consistency isn’t about doing the most. Your routine has to survive a lot including “noise” surrounding us.