help please

I'm literally just trying to create a gif that changes between these two images but every time i do the face becomes super blurry no matter what settings i use. I've been at this for hours and still nothing. I will like die for you or smth dramatic if you can make it work without the face being...

fa-play fa-pause Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. - Charles M. Blow She had abandoned her travel plans. Lorrd would wait for her...forever, foreseeably. A gemstone that may or may not be buried somewhere in its expansive deserts or forgotten in some museum...