Nominated for a Liebster Award

Thank you to Jessica of the beauty blog Olive + Hazel, who nominated Rouge Required for the Liebster Award, given to up-and-coming bloggers (less than 200 followers) in recognition of their blogging efforts.

The rules:

• Nominees must link back to the blogger who awarded them.
• If nominated, write "11 Random Facts" about yourself and answer the 11 questions the awarder wrote for you.
• Make up 11 new questions to be answered and nominate 11 other bloggers (their participation is optional).

11 Random Facts About Me:

1. My husband is from Barbados
2. I'm distantly related to Jesse James
3. My dad's business is making professional ventriloquist dummies: http://www.puppetsandprops.com/ 
4. I have fibromyalgia, OCD, and chemical depression
5. I am a book nerd
6. My youngest aunt is also my best friend
7. My favorite type of humor is a play on words
8. My poor mother was pregnant with me for 10 months instead of 9
9. I have freakishly small feet
10. I am from California, but I lived in Minnesota for almost 7 years
11. My brother has a crazy-deep voice like a radio announcer

Jessica's 11 questions:

1. Do you have a favorite quote? There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. --Marcel Proust 
   
2. What's your favorite ride at an amusement park? Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland
3. What is your favorite place to visit? Spain
4. Do you prefer coffee or tea? Coffee
5. What is one thing that always makes you laugh? Baby animals
6. When did you start blogging? January 1, 2013
7. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Ben & Jerry's Bailey's Irish Cream (limited edition)
8. Do you have a lucky number? Not a lucky number, but I've always liked the number 18
9. Who is your favorite singer or musical group? Currently, my favorite musical group is Travis
10. What are your three "desert island" items? Bible, fresh water, bread
11. Which is better: chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate

My nominees:

http://glamorable.blogspot.com/

http://apolishedaddiction.blogspot.com/

http://stuffbyashitude.blogspot.com/

http://beautymadn3ss.blogspot.com/

http://whatiamthinkingaboutnow.blogspot.com/

http://soulystones.blogspot.com/

http://laceandcameo.blogspot.com/

http://giggleblush.blogspot.com/

http://cranraspberryblog.wordpress.com/

http://beautyonrehab.blogspot.com/

http://missglammygirl.blogspot.com/

My 11 questions for the nominees:

1. How often do you blog?
2. Do you have any siblings?
3. What TV show, if any, is your guilty pleasure?
4. What is your number one weakness in purchasing beauty products?
5. Does your significant other read your blog?
6. Is your beauty product stash organized?
7. Where were you born?
8. When is your "blogiversary"?
9. Do you have pets?
10. How do you feel about nail polish?
11. What is your blogging goal for 2013?