Hi. Not to diminish your source, but according to Google's ngram viewer, which searches published works indexed by Google books, *bald-faced lie" is significant

Hi. Not to diminish your source, but according to Google's ngram viewer, which searches published works indexed by Google books, *bald-faced lie" is significantly more popular than "bold-faced lie" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bald-faced+lie%2C+bold-faced+lie&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbald%20-%20faced%20lie%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbold%20-%20faced%20lie%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bald-faced+lie...