A fashion policewoman dedicated to styling justly, blogger Amber McNaught runs The Fashion Police and Forever Amber, and blogs for Shoewawa.

Check the red headed lovely’s shopcast of fashion do’s here, and read on while we play Q&A.

: So tell us about yourself.

AM: I’m a freelance journalist and copywriter based just outside Edinburgh, in Scotland. I prefer to write about fashion, naturally, but I take on a wide mix of assignments for both newspapers and magazines as well as for corporate clients.

I live with my fiancé Terry and a Bichon Frise called Rubin, and I’m getting married next year – in a beautiful, Vera Wang dress!

: When did you start blogging and why?

AM: I’ve been blogging for over five years now: I started back in the day when blogs were called “online journals” and they were coded by hand, in the absence of blogging engines like Typepad and Blogger.  I started because I’ve kept diaries all my life, and I’m a writer by trade, so moving my writing online, where I could find an audience for it, seemed like the logical next step.

: Why fashion blogging?

AM: I love fashion, but more than that, I love the glimpse into other people’s lives that you get from reading their blogs. Reading a fashion blog is like having permission to open up someone’s closet and have a look inside. I find that fascinating, and it’s a great way to get inspiration for outfits you perhaps wouldn’t otherwise think of putting together.

: Why the “Fashion Police”? How is your take on fashion on this site different than it could have been if you were writing for a magazine?

AM: The Fashion Police came about because I found I was writing more and more about clothes – both mine and other people’s – in my personal blog, and I decided to give my readers a break and create an online home for my fashion-related ramblings.  Writing for the blog is very different from magazine writing because it’s so immediate: rather than spending hours crafting an article, it’s pretty much a case of “spit and upload”. I think that makes the writing that little bit fresher, and perhaps more accessible.

It leads to a lot more typos, too.