Yep. Just contact the producer or model and put everything in your initial communication so they can quote an accurate price. Your first email should be something to the tune of this:

"Hey! Looking to see if you can produce a custom for me. It would be a 10 minute solo pie video with "name of model." I'd like 30 pies and they can be shaving cream but it's important that pie tins with graham cracker crust are used. I'd also like the model to be topless and she'll pie herself in the face, also rubbing the pies all over her face and hair, then also pie her tits. I'd like it to be done in a teasing style where she says thing like "..I bet you can't wait for me to smash this pie in my face."

So, the more detailed you are, the better and quicker they can get you a quote.

THIS.

How not to order a custom:

(every question is a different email)

Hey, you do customs?
Would it be possible to do a pie one?
Is "model name" available?
What would it cost?
Oh..sorry, forget the details, here they are....

Hey..this all sounds great! I get paid in two weeks so I'll touch base with you then!

Find the producer that you want, and check out their profile here or on whatever they use most such as twitter for instance. Look to see if their profile has any specific information for contacting with customs (For instance Jayce checks her email that she lists more than her inbox here, less logging in).

IF you don't see anything specific, send them a DM here or again wherever you found them like twitter.

Be patient.

Then see johnnypie's examples above on good and bad email examples.

Agree completely about putting as much outline detail (but not a full script) as possible in the original message, though note different people will work very different ways - here in the UK models are generally paid per-scene rather than per-minute so specifying precise running times would be unusual - and I can't imagine ever shooting a custom as short as 10 minutes, most of our regular scenes run between 20 and 25 minutes, customs are usually significantly longer.

A good exmple of requesting a custom from us might be "I'd like three girls, if possible X, Y, and Z, if they are available. X and Y should be dressed as security guards in outfits I will supply, Z should be wearing the same overalls and boots she wore in (name of existing scene). They'll go into the mud one after another, detailed script to follow, and all three will get totally covered including faces and hair."

That's actually partly based on a successful custom we shot back in 2018, and as that one was outdoor mud we had to warn the customer it might take even longer than our standard three months to deliver, because of the variability of the weather, basically we had to have good weather line up with a weekend when all three requested people were available, and I was available to shoot it.

To give an idea of how variable our weather can be, all of May was a total washout from a mud scene POV, twice we had to convert planned mud days into dungeon messy shoots becuse it was bloody freezing and chucking it down outside. Then the late May bank holiday arrived, the temperature leapt fourteen degrees in one night, and over the following two weeks we shot thirteen mud scenes over four shoot days. It's now Midsummer's Eve and the forecast is overcast and rain, though the actual weather yesterday was somewhat better than the forecast.

But in general, as much outline detail as possible in the initial message, including requested models, outfits and footwear to be worn, gunge(s) to be used, very rough outline of the kind of scene required, and whether any specific dialog or lines to be included. Expect the producer to set a sensible timeframe for delivery, and then stick to it.

And, most important of all, review it here on UMD, on the producer's profile and/or in the new Customs Group - https://umd.net/groups/group/custom-scenes - afterwards! Letting other people know what the experience was like, good or bad, will go a long way to helping boost the good producers and weeding out those who fail to deliver.

Thank you so much for your input. I will admit, i think I have made "almost" every mistake on JohnnyPies list... granted, i was contacting some youtube peeps, as I wasn't sure if they did do customs or not, but I usually look for that info to begin with. I usually have a model in mind at first, though.

Hopefully I'll be ordering some customs one of these days as I get paid in two weeks.... lol!